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Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?

Posted by timothy on from the so-you're-saying-shuttleworth-has-business-acumen dept.

ruphus13 writes "Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, claims that the company is very close to the $30M mark, at which point, they will be a self-sustaining company. While people feel that this should not worry Microsoft, the real question is whether a 10,000 person effort on a failure like Vista can actually be the paradigm of a long-term strategy. From the article: 'Microsoft had 10,000 people [the article is unclear whether these were all developers, or administrative and support staff were factored in] working on Vista for a five year period ... huge profits in any given year can mean relatively little five years on. Canonical's self-sustaining revenue may not be threatening — but it leaves one wondering how sustainable Microsoft's development process really is.'"

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  1. Should Microsoft Worry? by SwashbucklingCowboy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    LOL!

    I cannot believe someone is seriously asking this question. If Microsoft is going to worry about Linux vendor, it's going to be Red Hat, not Canonical.

  2. Re:Marketing MIA by troll8901 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... I can help write press releases, ad copy, design business proposals ... we do a lot of market research ... explain what is possible to the business types ... I have customer service skills godddammnit! Anyway, I'd hope to be able to help. Like I said, where do I sign up?

    I know I'm going to be modded "-1, Redundant", and lose all my Karma that I've worked hard to build, but...

    Way to go, Sir! I salute you!