At Canonical, we believe in the power of open source to change the world
Canonical was created alongside Ubuntu to help it reach a wider market. Our services help governments and businesses the world over with migrations, management and support for their Ubuntu deployments. Together with our partners, we ensure that Ubuntu runs reliably on every platform from the PC and the smartphone to the server and, crucially, the cloud.
What we do
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We work with our hardware partners to make Ubuntu available pre-installed on PCs in more than 3,000 retailers around the world.
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We certify hundreds of PCs and servers from OEMs including Dell, HP and Lenovo, for use in the consumer and commercial sectors.
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We make Ubuntu available on the world’s most popular public clouds, including Amazon Web Services, IBM, Rackspace, Windows Azure and HP Cloud.
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We build cloud data centres for some of the world’s biggest telecommunications providers.
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We promote the use of open source in education, leading to large-scale desktop migrations covering hundreds of thousands of machines.
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We provide 24/7 support for some of the most famous technology companies in the world, including Netflix, Bloomberg and Google.
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We maintain a world class commercial partner network around Ubuntu, including leading names such as VMware and world-changing open source technologies like OpenStack.
Canonical and open source
We believe in the power of open source software; Ubuntu could not exist without its worldwide community of voluntary developers. We are committed to creating it, refining it, certifying it for reliability and promoting its use. As well as launching and running our own projects, we contribute staff, code and funding to many more.
Our management team
Jane Silber
Chief Executive Officer
Jane has over 20 years’ experience in business development, operations and software management. Before becoming Canonical’s CEO in 2010, Jane held VP roles at Canonical, Interactive Television Company and General Dynamics C4 Systems.
“As Ubuntu becomes the open-source standard in so many markets, our portfolio continues to flourish. I can’t imagine a better place to work.”
