Canonical Welcomes New Partners Following Latest Ubuntu 10.10 Release

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Canonical Welcomes New Partners Following Latest Ubuntu 10.10 Release
Ubuntu 10.10 launch in October drew strong partner interest
 
LONDON, November 16, 2010? Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, 
announced today the signing of several significant partnerships following the 
release last month of Ubuntu 10.10.
 
Boxed Ice, Opsview, Riptano, Unoware, Vladster, Wavemaker and Zend all joined as 
Canonical Software Partners, their applications delivering solutions for 
business and personal use, and supported by commercial companies providing the 
highest level of service.
 
Canonical Software Partners work closely with the development teams who deliver 
Ubuntu, and thus ensure that installation and operation are of the highest 
quality.
 
"In the past year, we've seen an increase in partners joining our ecosystem, an 
indication of Ubuntu's worldwide acceptance and growing-use in the enterprise," 
said Matt Asay, COO of Canonical. "We welcome our newest partners and encourage 
our customers to take advantage of all that they offer."
 
About Canonical's newest partners
Boxed Ice's Server Density is a server monitoring tool provided as a service 
that makes it easy to start monitoring your server performance and applications 
such as Apache and MySQL. Get e-mail, SMS and iPhone alerts when things go 
wrong, troubleshoot historical problems and plan future capacity. More 
information is at http://www.serverdensity.com/.
 
Opsview delivers business-powered monitoring without the complexity or expense 
of proprietary software. This integrated and commercially-supported open source 
product gives you a simplified deployment experience, a single console for 
managing and monitoring distributed deployments, and a comprehensive view of 
your physical, virtualized and hybrid cloud infrastructure. More information is 
at http://www.opsview.com/.
 
Riptano's Cassandra is the most scalable and high performance database for 
online transactions available. Offering geographic distribution of data across 
multiple data centers and linear, incremental scalability, Cassandra allows the 
addition of resources on an as needed basis. Riptano is the company providing 
software, training and professional services for Apache Cassandra. More 
information is at http://www.riptano.com/.
 
Unoware provides enterprise-level business and IT solutions, considering the 
lowest total cost of ownership. Unoware solutions implement the best standards 
for SOA, BPM and EAM, considering virtualization and high-availability runtimes, 
running entirely on Linux platforms, like Ubuntu Server. More information is at 
http://www.unoware.com.br/.
 
Vladster delivers Point of Sale and inventory management solutions for small and 
medium sized businesses. Our main open source product IncoPOS gives you great 
control over your business. IncoPOS also includes very powerful non-free add-ons 
which make the interaction with other management systems and data visualization 
a breeze. More information at http://vladster.net/en/home.aspx.
 
WaveMaker Software is the only open and easy-to-use web and cloud development 
platform. WaveMaker's visual, drag and drop tools flatten the Java learning 
curve by 92% and create standard Java applications with 98% less code.  
WaveMaker applications are cloud-ready and include built-in support for 
multi-tenancy and elastic scaling. More information is at 
http://www.wavemaker.com/.
 
Zend Technologies, Inc, the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and 
services for developing, deploying and managing business critical PHP 
applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family 
of products delivers a comprehensive solution for supporting the entire 
lifecycle of PHP applications. For more information, please visit 
http://www.zend.com/or call 408-253-8800.
 
To find a Canonical partner, please visit: http://webapps.ubuntu.com/partners/
For information on becoming a partner, visit: 
https://forms.canonical.com/partners/
 
About Canonical
Canonical provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu 
partners and customers worldwide. As the company behind the Ubuntu project, 
Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu ? an ever-popular 
and fast-growing open-source operating system. It aims to ensure that Ubuntu is 
available to every organisation and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and 
netbooks.
 
Canonical partners with computer hardware manufacturers to certify Ubuntu, 
provides migration, deployment, support and training services to businesses, and 
offers online services direct to end users. Canonical also builds and maintains 
collaborative, open-source development tools to ensure that organisations and 
individuals can participate fully in innovations within the open-source 
community. For more information, please visit www.canonical.com.
 
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