Ubuntu wants to have 200 million users by 2015

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Technologie - Général
Monday, 09 May 2011 23:23

Mark Shuttleworth , Canonical's founder and leader, the South African company behind the popular Linux distribution over the last decade, Ubuntu , said during his keynote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit which aims to have 200 million users in 4 years:

We're not playing for the hearts and minds of developers, we are playing for the world, and for that we have to play with other rules.

I want to highlight, Mark went to the developers words, words that frame the vision that Mark has to Ubuntu . The employer wants to be an operating system that represents a great experience for users, a development based on feedback from them, the community-at constant iterations, half, pointing to the top, the usability-oh, what a question more subjective (I'm serious) - for Windows 7 or Mac OS X.

How does Canonical get that huge user base? Broadcast, advertising, internet marketing, radio and television, major new contracts with manufacturers, "Dell, HP, Acer? How will it be? I think if Mark said it is because he has a plan, and security is striking from the outside who see the development of Ubuntu.

To all this, what the current number of Ubuntu users? Are there any official figures? By now we know, a little unofficial voice of Prakash Advani who in 2010 said that Ubuntu numbered about 12 million users. If so, moving from 12-or slightly more this year, to 200 million users represents a giant leap.

I do not know how the numbers go Natty Ubuntu 11.04, but considering what some call "the fiasco of Unity" (yes, Unity , the controversial software layer created by Canonical to be placed on the GNOME desktop and replace GNOME Shell ) then those expectations are even bolder than they already appear.

We recognize, however, momentum and Canonical-business diffusion in the end, has given the open source software and open. That is, recognizing that quality software have been integrated in a friendly environment, with proposals for design and usability (Unity is that, a very valid), end-user focused, and above all, in constant evolution.

Whether you reach those 200 million users or not, have such plans Canonical with Ubuntu, I think that only reach halfway will be a memorable achievement.

Ubuntu wants to have 200 million users by 2015 written ALT1040 May 9, 2011 alan.lazalde
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