Mark Shuttleworth Sees Increased Demand For Enterprise Ubuntu Linux Desktop

'Canonical's real money comes from the cloud and Internet of Things,
but AI and machine learning developers are demanding -- and getting --
Ubuntu Linux desktop with enterprise support. From a report:

In a wide-ranging conversation at Open Infrastructure Summit, Mark
Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux and its corporate parent
Canonical, said: "We have seen companies signing up for Linux desktop
support, because they want to have fleets of Ubuntu desktop for their
artificial intelligence engineers." This development caught
Shuttleworth by surprise. "We're starting actually now to commercially
support the desktop in a way that we've never been asked to before,"
he said. Of course, Ubuntu has long been used by developers, but
Shuttleworth explained, "Previously, those were kind of off the books,
under the table. You know, 'Don't ask don't tell deployments.' "But
now suddenly, it's the AI team and they've got to be supported."'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/04/30/1641242

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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