My favorite cosmonaut-coder Mark Shuttleworth stopped by our offices this morning for a visit. Mark is the founder of both the Linux distribution Ubuntu and its commercial sponsor Canonical. Mark and I sat down in the lobby and caught up. Here is a short interview we recorded.
Some of the topics Mark tackles:
- Where Canonical is currently working with Dell
- Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (to build your “own little EC2″) and how its doing
- Passing the CEO mantle to Jane Silber in March
- The 10.4 Ubuntu release Lucid Lynx and what to expect: a strong cloud focus on the enterprise side and a lot of shiny new bling on the desktop as well as making the desktop “social” (e.g. Tweet straight from your desktop)
- What Ubuntu is doing in the Netbook space
- What excites Mark the most in technology today and why cloud is like HTTP in the early 90’s
Pau for now…