Canonical Ltd. is a privately held company supporting computer software, based in London, England. It was founded and funded by the South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for the operating system Ubuntu and related projects. Canonical employs staff in more than 70 countries and maintains offices in London, Austin, Boston, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo and the Isle of Man. This entry covers Canonical as an organization, separate from Ubuntu and from any distribution built on it.
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Private company limited by shares
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5 March 2004
Operates In: Software Industry, Infobox: industry
Computer software
Founded By: Mark Shuttleworth, Lead: founded-by
It was founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for the operating system Ubuntu, and related projects.
Led By: Mark Shuttleworth, Article body: led-by
Mark Shuttleworth, CEO and founder of the Ubuntu project, former Debian maintainer of Apache and founder of Thawte Consulting (2004, ), CEO until March 2010 and from July 2017 to present
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Canonical Ltd. is a privately held company supporting computer software, based in London, England.
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