Mark Shuttleworth doesn’t intend to make any “significant change” to Canonical’s executive direction and strategy now that he has resumed his position as CEO.
The founder of Canonical, behind the open source operating system Ubuntu, retook his former post as head of the company in July, replacing the long-serving Jane Silber, who took over for him in 2010 when he transitioned to a more product-focused role.
Canonical’s focus will remain on enterprise-facing business segments like its cloud and IoT divisions, Shuttleworth said, as well as on advanced areas like workloads for machine learning and self-driving cars, but he didn’t share any details on forthcoming products. However, he reaffirmed that Canonical’s desktop product is not about to be left behind.
Canonical ditched plans for a mobile rollout of Ubuntu in April, killing off development plans for Unity 8, a phone and convergence shell, in favour of shifting its default desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which is due to ship in April 2018. In a discussion sparked by a Google+ post discussing the ditched plans, Shuttleworth hit out at members of the open source community who had previously complained about Mir, a display interface that Canonical developed to enable the Unity 8 project, calling them “muppets”.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/open-source/29283/no-strategic-change-for-canonical-says-mark-shuttleworth
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