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Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-nice-to-have-goals dept.

dkd903 writes "Delivering the keynote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at Budapest, Hungary, Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical's goal is to have 200 million Ubuntu users in four years. Canonical has not officially provided any data on how many Ubuntu users there currently are — in fact, the number is quite difficult to track. However, according to Prakash Advani, a partner manager for Central Asia at Canonical, there are an estimated 12 million Ubuntu users."

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  1. Re:One right here! by x*yy*x · · Score: 5, Funny

    I personally find this good solution. You get the stability of Ubuntu, eye-candy of Mac and the security of Windows.

  2. Re:One right here! by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Design is at the centre of Shuttleworth’s roadmap for Unity. “I woke up one day and thought, ‘Gosh, I’d really like to make using my universal general-purpose computer that I can do ANYTHING with feel like I’m using a locked-down three-year-old half-smart phone through the clunky mechanism some l33t h@xx0r used to jailbreak it, I can’t think of a better user experience.’ We’re not quite there yet, but this gets Unity a lot of the way.”

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  3. Re:Not here by MightyMartian · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not here, I'm sticking with OpenSUSE for the foreseeable future.

    Which is about six more months so far as I can tell...

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  4. Re:And others, too. by geminidomino · · Score: 3, Funny

    He was smart enough not only get spread out his experience, but to ditch Ubuntu?

    You should be proud!