by shares 1 industry computer software founded 5 march 2004 ; 12 years ago 2004 03 05 founder mark shuttleworth headquarters london united kingdom area served worldwide key people mark shuttleworth jane silber ceo products ubuntu launchpad bazaar landscape ubuntu one 2 revenue us 65.7 million 2013 3 number of employees 700 4 subsidiaries canonical group ltd canonical usa inc. canonical china ltd chinese canonical brasil ltda canonical canada ltd canonical ltd taiwan br . chinese website www.canonical.com footnotes references formerly m r s virtual development ltd 5 ubuntu the company s main product canonical ltd. 6 is a uk based privately held computer software company founded and funded by south african entrepreneur mark shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for ubuntu and related projects . canonical employs staff in more than 30 countries and maintains offices in london boston taipei montreal shanghai s o paulo and the isle of man . 4 contents 1 projects 1.1 open source software 1.2 other projects and services 1.3 joint ventures 2 business plans 3 subsidiaries 4 employees 4.1 current 4.2 past 5 references 6 external links projects edit canonical ltd. has created and continues to back several projects . principally these are free and open source software foss or tools designed to improve collaboration between free software developers and contributors . open source software edit mark shuttleworth standing and other canonical employees discuss launchpad at a design sprint in germany ubuntu 7 a debian based linux distribution with unity formerly gnome desktop gnu bazaar 8 a decentralized revision control system storm an object relational mapper for python 9 part of the launchpad codebase juju a service orchestration management tool maas a bare metal server provisioning tool upstart an event based replacement for the init daemon quickly a framework for creating software programs for linux ubiquity installer mir display server launchpad 10 11 a centralised website containing several component web applications designed to make collaboration between free software projects easier ppa a special software repository for uploading software packages to be built and published as an apt repository blueprints a tool for planning features of software code hosting of bazaar branches answers support tracker rosetta an online language translation tool to help localisation of software cf. the rosetta stone malone as in bugsy malone a collaborative bug tracker that allows linking to other bug trackers soyuz a tool for creating custom distributions such as kubuntu and xubuntu . other projects and services edit landscape 12 a proprietary web service for centralized management of ubuntu systems ubuntu software center ubuntu one a service for file synchronization and other uses canonical supplies some of the core engineering to linaro which invests in upstream projects ubuntu advantage in japan the support service sales by k.k. ashisuto joint ventures edit windows subsystem for linux with microsoft business plans edit in a guardian interview in may 2008 shuttleworth said that the canonical business model was service provision and explained that canonical was not yet close to profitability . canonical also claimed it would wait for the business to turn into a profitable one within another three to five years . shuttleworth regarded canonical as positioning itself as demand for services related to free software rose . 13 this strategy has been compared to red hat s business strategies in the 1990s . 14 in an early 2009 new york times article shuttleworth said that canonical s revenue was creeping towards 30 million the company s break even point . 15 however as of 2013 the company was again in investment mode making a 21.3 million loss as it invested in mobile . in 2007 canonical launched an international online shop selling support services and ubuntu branded goods ; later in 2008 it expanded that with a united states specific shop designed to reduce shipment times . 16 at the same time the word ubuntu was trademarked in connection with clothing and accessories . 17 subsidiaries edit canonical group ltd is located in london . canonical usa inc. is located in lexington massachusetts . canonical china ltd chinese is located in shanghai . canonical brasil ltda is located in s o paulo . canonical canada ltd is located in montreal the office is no longer in service 18 . canonical ltd taiwan br . chinese is located in taipei . employees edit ubuntu developer summit october 2011 canonical has more than 500 employees . 4 the head office is in london previously on the 27th floor of millbank tower 19 but now on the 5th floor of the blue fin building southwark street . 20 in the summer of 2006 canonical opened an office in montreal to house its global support and services operation . 14 taipei 101 is also home to a canonical office . 21 there is also an oem team in lexington massachusetts united states . 22 current edit notable current employees of canonical include mark shuttleworth founder of the ubuntu project former debian maintainer of apache and founder of thawte consulting 2004 ceo until march 2010 jane silber ceo since march 2010 ; formerly coo and leader of the ubuntu one project past edit notable past employees ben collins former debian project leader and kernel developer 2006 2009 jeff waugh employee no. 3 gnome and planet aggregator developer business development 2004 2006 benjamin mako hill core developer and community coordinator 2004 2005 ian jackson developer of dpkg and former debian project leader 2005 2007 lars wirzenius first contributor to the linux kernel and linus torvalds former office mate 2007 2009 scott james remnant formerly a debian and gnu maintainer of gnu libtool and co author of the planet aggregator 2004 2011 23 matt zimmerman formerly of the debian security team worked at canonical as ubuntu chief technical officer 2004 2011 24 john d. bernard was responsible for all major marketing deployments 2009 2012 stuart langridge 2009 2013 jono bacon ubuntu community leader 2006 2014 references edit the isle of man companies registry annual return 2005 for company no. 110334c non distributable available for a fee of 1.00 overview . canonical . retrieved 2013 09 27 . brodkin jon 13 january 2014 . ubuntu maker boosted revenue in 2013 but doubled loss to 21 million . ars technica . retrieved 9 may 2015 . a b c about canonical . canonical ltd. retrieved 2012 08 20 . we ve come a long way since our launch in 2004 . we now have over 500 staff in more than 30 countries and offices in london boston taipei montreal shanghai s o paulo and the isle of man . company no. 110334c . the isle of man companies registry . retrieved 2005 05 18 . previous names m r s virtual development limited name type previous uk registered trademark eu004059218 canonical filed 29 september 2004 . uk registered trademark eu004059119 ubuntu filed 29 september 2004 . uk registered trademark eu005152467 bazaar filed 21 june 2006 . canonical releases storm as open source . ubuntu.com . 9 july 2007 . retrieved 2013 09 27 . uk registered trademark eu006251219 launchpad filed 4 september 2007 . canonical releases source code for launchpad . canonical ltd. retrieved 18 july 2012 . uk registered trademark eu005152418 landscape filed 21 june 2006 published 6 august 2007 . moody glyn 22 may 2008 . linux is a platform for people not just specialists . london the guardian . retrieved 2008 05 23 . a b shankland stephen 6 october 2006 . canonical seeks profit from free ubuntu . c net . retrieved 2007 10 19 . a software populist who doesn t do windows . the new york times . 11 january 2009 . retrieved 2010 11 08 . canonical launches u.s. based shop.ubuntu.com in time for holiday season . ubuntu insights . canonical ltd. 20 november 2008 . retrieved 2015 06 28 . canonical launched today an u.s. based on line shop for ubuntu branded merchandise and software . with a new fulfillment house in st. louis missouri shipments are faster and less expensive for ubuntu users and enthusiasts in the u.s uk registered trademark eu007426265 . uk intellectual property office . 27 november 2008 . retrieved 2009 02 09 . mark text ubuntu ... class 16 stationery ; ... class 18 luggage ; ... class 25 articles of clothing ... canonical limited loco team portal canonical offices montreal . canonical . retrieved 2016 06 04 . where . bazaar vcs.org . 18 may 2007 . retrieved 2013 09 27 . ways to contact . canonical . retrieved 2013 09 27 . canonical taiwan branch rm d 46th floor taipei 101 building flickr photo sharing . flickr . 26 february 2009 . retrieved 2013 09 27 . ubuntu for android . canonical ltd. retrieved 2012 02 21 . we have over 500 staff in more than 30 countries with offices in london boston taipei montreal shanghai and s o paulo . remnant scott james . leaving canonical . retrieved 2011 01 22 . matt zimmerman leaving canonical . 6 may 2011 . retrieved 2013 04 07 . external links edit free software portal official website v t e ubuntu general canonical ltd. releases ubuntu philosophy people jono bacon ben collins benjamin mako hill ian jackson scott james remnant mark shuttleworth jeff waugh jane silber derivatives official editions ubuntu ubuntu server ubuntu touch ubuntu tv ubuntu kylin community supported edubuntu kubuntu lubuntu mythbuntu ubuntu gnome ubuntu mate ubuntu studio xubuntu terminated gobuntu ubuntu mobile ubuntu netbook edition ubuntu jeos unofficial easypeasy elementary os emmabunt s linux mint trisquel applications bazaar juju live usb creator software updater ubiquity ubuntu software center discontinued opencd startup manager ubuntu one related applications brasero gnome files technology and user interface lightdm mir display server side stage snappy ubuntu for android unity interface uncomplicated firewall upstart usplash wubi xsplash related technology apparmor apt deb format dpkg hardware system76 ubuntu edge support ask ubuntu launchpad medibuntu paper cut bug personal package archive restricted extras ubuntu professional certification ubuntu forums ubuntu one account ubuntu sso by third party getdeb fonts ubuntu typeface ubuntu title media full circle ubuntu user related topics debian linux kernel aptitude dash debconf package category commons book wikiversity retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title canonical company & oldid 735237006 categories canonical company debianfree software companieshsa foundation membersinformation technology companies of the united kingdomlinux companiessoftware companies based in londonsoftware companies established in 2004software companies of the united kingdomubuntu operating system hidden categories use dmy dates from august 2015articles containing chinese language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages asturianuaz rbaycanca bosanskicatal e tinadeutsch espa olesperanto fran aisgalego hrvatskibahasa indonesiaitaliano latvie ulietuvi bahasa melayunederlands norsk bokm lpolskiportugu srom n sloven ina srpskisuomisvenska tatar a t rk e ti ng vi t edit links this page was last modified on 19 august 2016 at 12 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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