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Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth stepping down, COO Jane Silber steps up
On March 1, 2010 Canonical Chief Operating Officer Jane Silber will become the institution's next Chief Executive Officer. She's been with Canonical since 2004 and has spent her time wearing a variety of different hats from finance to legal, to management of the OEM Services and Ubuntu One teams. She also has a background in software development.
Shuttleworth, meanwhile, says he'll be freeing up more time to focus on "product design, partnerships, and customers."
What does this all mean for the future of Ubuntu development? Probably not very much. Ubuntu is and always has been shaped by a number of factors, including input from the folks at Canonical and the larger Ubuntu community of users. But Shuttleworth has been the public face of Ubuntu for years, and it should be interesting to see what, if any impact the changes at the top have on Ubuntu's public image.
My guess? still nothing. If Bill Gates can hand over the reigns of Microsoft to Steve Ballmer relatively seamlessly, I don't see why a change in leadership at a company known for making open source software would be any more contentious.
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Subscribe to commentsKekDec 17th 2009 2:15PM
Thanks to Mr. Shuttleworth. I sure hope he continues to stay involved.
motangDec 17th 2009 4:36PM
That's the plan, he will be more involved in making Ubuntu the next big OS, as with CEO there weren't much time for him to do that.
goldfishDec 17th 2009 3:30PM
Mark is so smart, I'm sure this change will continue to see the great Ubuntu OS get even better.
As an Ubuntu user, I'm a stakeholder! :)
nicholascronwrightDec 17th 2009 10:27PM
Just a reminder he is a South African (like myself), and as far as I am concerned the person solely responsible for making Linux accessible to 'normal' people. I tried Linux many times in my life and always uninstalled it, find it too hard to work with.
Then came Ubuntu and I now have in installed on my system, permanently...
So South Africans are good at something!