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Canonical and Altkom Akademia partner to deliver Ubuntu Certified Professional training in Poland

London, UK, 3 August 2007 – Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced it has signed an agreement with Altkom Akademia to deliver 'Ubuntu Certified Professional' (UCP) training in Poland. Altkom will deliver official courses in Warsaw starting in September 2007.

Canonical Announces Beta of Launchpad 'Personal Package Archive' Service For Developers Publishing Their Own Software

UBUNTU LIVE, Portland, OR, July 22, 2007 - Canonical today announced the beta release of the Launchpad Personal Package Archive (PPA) service, a new way for developers to build and publish packages of their code, documentation, artwork, themes and other contributions to free software.

New “Landscape” Ideal for Large Deployments

UBUNTU LIVE, Portland, OR, July 22, 2007 - Canonical announced today the availability of Landscape, its web-based systems management tool for Ubuntu servers and desktops.

Available to Canonical's support subscribers, Landscape provides a key tool for the growing number of businesses that want to take advantage of the ease of use of Ubuntu and have previously seen system administration or support as a hurdle.

New Python-based database communication tool represents first open source component of Launchpad

LONDON, July 9, 2007 – Canonical Ltd today announced the release of Storm, a generic open source object relational mapper (ORM) for Python. Storm is designed to support communication with multiple databases simultaneously. Canonical is best known for the popular Ubuntu operating system and Launchpad, a web-based collaboration platform for open source developers.

Ubuntu Receives Readers' Choice Award for 'Best Linux Distribution'

NEW YORK, NY, June 29, 2007 – Canonical, Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced that it won Enterprise Open Source Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award for the “Best Linux Distribution,” voted on by members of the open source community.

Canonical Announces Details of Ubuntu for Mobile Internet Devices

Scheduled for October 2007 Launch

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 7, 2007 – Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced more details on Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition at Computex 2007 in Taipei.

Following discussions at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Seville Spain and a great response from the developer community generally, the target specifications and technical milestones for the project have been agreed.

Ubuntu 7.04 Wins a "100 Best Products of 2007 Award" from PC World

LONDON, May 23, 2007 – Ubuntu 7.04, commercially sponsored by Canonical Ltd., was honored by PC World with a 100 Best Products of 2007 Award. The article is available now on PCWorld.com, and will also be featured in the July 2007 issue of PC World, which hits newsstands June 12.

Canonical and TraiCen Computer Training & Consulting partner to deliver Ubuntu Certified Professional training in Germany

17th May 2007, London, UK – Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced it has signed an agreement with TraiCen Computer Training & Consulting to deliver 'Ubuntu Certified Professional' (UCP) training in Germany. TraiCen will deliver official courses in Muenster from August 2007.

Dell To Offer Ubuntu

LONDON, 1st May 2007 - Canonical and Dell are pleased to announce a partnership to offer Ubuntu 7.04 on select desktop and notebook products. This is a tremendous step forward for Ubuntu, our users and customers.

More about the announcement is available on the Dell website, including a video interview with Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth.

Canonical and Savoir-Faire Linux partner to deliver Ubuntu Certified Professional training in Canada

1 May 2007, London, UK – Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced it has signed an agreement with Savoir-Faire to deliver 'Ubuntu Certified Professional' (UCP) training in Canada. Savoir-Faire will deliver official courses in Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa-Gatineau from May 2007.