The story behind Ubuntu

Generally, small stories refer to things that happened a long time ago, but the little stories in this article are the stories that have just happened recently. The story is a story. We don't need to drill this horn. Next, the story begins. In the international open-source community, there is a well-known Alfresco company, whose main business is Enterprise Content Management (open-source model ). Although the company is famous, it is not clear where the company's headquarters is (in which country. In fact, Alfresco is headquartered in the UK and the United States, with many global offices. 2

Generally, small stories refer to things that happened a long time ago, but the little stories in this article are the stories that have just happened recently. The story is a story. We don't need to drill this horn. Next, the story begins.

In the international open-source community, there is a well-known Alfresco company, whose main business is Enterprise Content Management (open-source model ). Although the company is famous, it is not clear where the company's headquarters is (in which country. In fact, Alfresco is headquartered in the UK and the United States, with many global offices. In early 2005, Alfresco hired a general manager from Novell, the United States. This is Mr. Matt Asay. He was the first American employee of the company (at that time, the company had 13 full-time employees ). Since then, Alfresco's business has grown rapidly and has achieved remarkable profit in 18 quarters. During this period, Mr. matt Asay also opened his own blog column ("the road to openness") in CNET: news.cnet.com/openroad. He kept posting articles with great influence in the industry, known as Open Source veteran ).

During the Christmas last year, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, wrote a letter (texted) telling him (Matt Asay) that "opening of the COO role" (COO role is open to him ). He is very interested in this. He knows this is a big challenge. He will face three problems: cloud computing, customer's Linux deployment, and community development. As a result, he immediately flew to London and met several top leaders of Canonical for in-depth contact and communication. Then, he gained the understanding and support of Alfresco in February 5 this year, matt Asay accepted this challenge and officially announced the acceptance of the invitation from Canonical to join Canonical as its chief operating officer (COO ). However, he still lives in Utah, USA, and only needs to get up and work every morning to synchronize with London.

The addition of Matt Asay to Canonical has received great attention from the global industry. Because he is both an open-source theoretical and thinker and an open-source Real-person (with remarkable performance ). Canonical has 320 employees in 29 countries around the world. It has three offices in Boston, London, and Taipei, China, while its COO works in Utah State, it's amazing. Today, companies on the Internet are probably like this.

Mr. Matt Asay understands that in today's world, although there are not many Linux users, there are already many people who understand and accept Linux. That is to say, the number of edge users of Win + nux is already considerable. They are both Windows users and Linux users, and vice versa. In China, the development of Linux is totally different from that of Windows. It does not conform to the historical development trend (current situation) and is completely different from objective reality. Today, the Linux environment has gradually become a climate for both the desktop and the server, and is mainly manifested in the constant expansion of the Win + nux user base, free Software is gaining traction. Some Linux exaggerated elements have been covered in the shadows of historical time and space.

Note: Matt Asay has a wide social circle, including Microsoft. His blog column "Open Road" still belongs to CNET and cannot be taken to Canonical. His identity is very interesting. He is both a public character (a well-known technical critic) and a company manager (busy for the benefit of a company! It's hard to offend people.