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Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTagMark Shuttleworth at LinuxTagPosted Jun 15, 2010 16:38 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag
5 million preinstalled Ubuntu machines? That's a big claim. I assume there's nothing publicly known outside of this keynote that can be used to substantiate that...as per usual for any public claim made by a Canonical exec.
Hmm. Remind me again... at its peak how many pre-installed machines in a year did Xandros claim at the beginning of the netbook market? Overall are Ubuntu preinstall deployments growing linux marketshare or is Ubuntu just effectively cannibalising the same marketshare that Xandros created originally?
And... moreover if Shuttleworth is lumping in the new Ubuntu branded instant-on solution that was announced recently which competes directly with Splashtop (a competing linux solution)... what's Splashtop's overall pre-installed numbers? Splashtop's _owns_ this space. Is Ubuntu winning OEM contracts away from DeviceVM's Splashtop or are they growing the space with new OEMs that have yet to get on the Splashtop train?
-jef
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Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag Posted Jun 15, 2010 20:48 UTC (Tue) by zoopster (guest, #57562) [Link]
I missed the 5 million pre-installed machines comment in the article. Where did you get that from? Or is it just unsubstantiated rhetoric? And what in the world would that have to do with Xandros? Not sure I get the connection. Enlighten us oh wise one.
Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag Posted Jun 15, 2010 21:26 UTC (Tue) by mmcgrath (subscriber, #44906) [Link]
> I missed the 5 million pre-installed machines comment in the article.
FTA (the one right above your comment)
> As a result of its efforts, Mark says, Ubuntu will be shipping preinstalled on five million machines this year.
Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag Posted Jun 17, 2010 2:03 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
I guess he could enumerate potentially unannounced commercial deals, or he could ... not. Seriously, this is the (equally pointless) equivalent of going through Wikipedia articles and whacking '[citation needed]' twice per sentence because you don't like the author, or the topic, or whatever.
Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag Posted Jun 17, 2010 12:31 UTC (Thu) by stevem (subscriber, #1512) [Link]
Seconded. Thanks to Jon and the LWN team for the comment filtering, it's making LWN much more pleasant now!
Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag Posted Jun 18, 2010 7:36 UTC (Fri) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
While I agree, be careful not to talk about it too much, or you negate some of its benefits.
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