Canonical: Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs
Chris Kenyon, the VP of sales and business development for Canonical, just spoke this afternoon at the Ubuntu 12.10 Developer Summit about what Canonical does with OEMs and ODMs. He also tossed out some rather interesting numbers about the adoption of Ubuntu Linux.
Here's some of the facts that Kenyon tossed out in his after-lunch keynote:
- Eight to ten million units shipped last year world-wide.
- Canonical will be opening their first Beijing office this year (their Taipei office right now handles most of their Asian operations since 2008).
- Last year Ubuntu shipped on 7.5 billion dollars (presumably USD) worth of hardware.
- Next year they expect to more than double these numbers to 18 million units world-wide, or what Chris says would be 5% of PCs shipping world-wide would be with Ubuntu Linux.
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Here's some of the facts that Kenyon tossed out in his after-lunch keynote:
- Eight to ten million units shipped last year world-wide.
- Canonical will be opening their first Beijing office this year (their Taipei office right now handles most of their Asian operations since 2008).
- Last year Ubuntu shipped on 7.5 billion dollars (presumably USD) worth of hardware.
- Next year they expect to more than double these numbers to 18 million units world-wide, or what Chris says would be 5% of PCs shipping world-wide would be with Ubuntu Linux.
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