[kwlug-disc] How Canonical makes money ...

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:12 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> This begs the question... how does Ubuntu make money (eventually)?
>

They are a private company, so numbers are not readily available, but ...

They have several initiatives for making money.

- "Cloud" offering where people can store their stuff and pay for it.

- Enterprise Cloud offering.

- Support for enterprise clients (both desktop and servers)

- Partnerships (e.g. inclusion of proprietary packages in special
repositories)

- Certification for hardware

- Training.

Now, how successful is any of the above? One can only guess.

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