Recently MuleSource partnered with Canonical to improve Tomcat packaging for Ubuntu and Debian. The Tomcat’s expert Jason Britain, newly hired at MuleSource, made clear what are MuleSource’s contributions to Tomcat and I asked to Matt Asay more about what Canonical brings to this partnership, and to Jono Bacon more about Ubuntu’s community.
At the beginning of February Matt Asay moved from Alfresco to Canonical, and Matt’s blog activity already reflects his career change and I asked Matt about his top priorities in the new role. (More …)
Matt, many thanks for your post.
There is no mention here of the messages that were once dear to Canonical’s heart, freedom, free software. Is this vision now to be sacrificed to the alter of enterprise computing?
A really interesting question to answer would be, how does Canonical propose to bring freedom to the cloud?
Some clarity around these topics would be great.
Don,
Matt answers your question: it’s a business, that has lots of potential for growth and profit for its employees and owners. If Canonical increases its market share and installed base, that will increase the viability of Linux as a platform — including the supply of applications and the willingness of firms to consider it as a desktop alternative. But in the end, Jane and Matt’s job is to make a buck.
Joel
Don are discussing.
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