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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

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4 October 2010

Chicago-based financial services company chooses Ubuntu and cuts server infrastructure by 70 per cent

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Financial services company Equitec was running its mission-critical, proprietary trading software on 100 Windows-based servers. After experiencing a series of performance issues, the company decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Now Equitec can run its entire workload on just 30 Ubuntu-based servers, which equates to a dramatic hardware, ...

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4 October 2010

Film site reduces upgrade times from days to minutes

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Kinopoisk (http://www.kinopoisk.ru/), a Russian film website similar to IMDb, needed to implement a new server infrastructure that would simplify maintenance and scale to meet its future requirements. After testing a range of server technologies, the company chose to introduce 15 servers based on Ubuntu Server Edition. As a result, it has ...

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4 October 2010

Ubuntu is the open source platform of choice for Oxford Archaeology

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Out with the proprietary software and in with open source. Moving to Ubuntu is proving to be an excellent decision by Oxford Archaeology. Background Oxford Archaeology, as its name implies, is no high-tech newbie. The company, self described as an expert in excavation and heritage management, was founded in 1973 in Oxford, England and has ...

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4 October 2010

PlusServer deploys Landscape Dedicated Server and achieves a rapid return on investment

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Summary German hosting provider PlusServer AG runs 70 per cent of its internal systems and 15 per cent of customer servers on Ubuntu. To reduce time spent on routine maintenance and improve control over updates, the company rolled out Landscape Dedicated Server from Canonical. With Landscape, PlusServer administrators can manage multiple ...

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1 October 2010

Ubuntu emoticons

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“Say hello to my little friends…” I’ve just completed a set of emoticons that more closely follow our visual identity to replace the defaults on the Canonical Design Blog. The old ones grated rather badly in my opinion and stuck out as something that needed attention. We are still determining exactly what colours we intend ...

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1 October 2010

This week in design – 1 October 2010

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It’s _almost_ there. Happy “so close to release I can almost taste the Ubuntinis” Day everyone! And if you’ve not tried an Ubuntini, well you should. The next release of Ubuntu releases on the 10th October but the release candidate is out there now and as I write this the final release meeting of the ...

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30 September 2010

Ubuntu supports technology-enabled teaching at The Johns Hopkins University

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Cost-effective, easy-to-use and reliable, Ubuntu proved to be the open source platform of choice on which to build a support system for technology-enabled classrooms at The Johns Hopkins University. Background America’s first research university, The Johns Hopkins University is a world leader in research and education. Sean Stanley, Instr ...

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30 September 2010

Ubuntu provides a secure and easily accessible system for german pilots

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Enhanced security, outstanding support and reduced maintenance times – Ubuntu was the optimal choice for Contact Air GmbH. Summary Contact Air is a regional airline operating exclusively for Lufthansa German Airlines. They run a fleet of 13 turboprop aircraft flown by 120 pilots using notebooks for performance calculations, logging, train ...

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30 September 2010

Ubuntu proved the optimal choice for a non-profit radio station

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Simplicity in switching, ease-of-use, great client/server side management and outstanding reliability – Ubuntu proved the best choice for KRUU-FM Radio Station. Background KRUU-FM, a non-profit community radio station based in Iowa, USA, broadcasts locally 24 hours a day via an FM signal, and online to 30 countries via an MP3 audio stream ...

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30 September 2010

Locatrix deploys mobile applications on Ubuntu

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Locatrix Communications is a developer of mobile location-based application services, for deployment by enterprises and mobile network operators. The four-year old Brisbane-based company is the brains behind the Uandme™ social networking service, which lets mobile subscribers find their friends, receive alerts when they are nearby, and br ...

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30 September 2010

Ubuntu enables advanced computer research into killer diseases

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Delivering training courses to researchers in developing countries – Ubuntu was the first choice for The Wellcome Trust Sangar Institute. Background The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is a charity at the forefront of research into the study of the genomes of the world’s major killer diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever and the ‘superb ...

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