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WorksWithU Vodcast, Episode II

  • Written by The VAR Guy 1
  • May 21, 2009

Welcome to the WorksWithU Vodcast, Episode II, produced by contributing bloggers Joshua Chase and Nick Ali. This week we cover...

...such topics as:

  • Ubuntu One -- the early word on Canonical's file sharing and online storage system for Ubuntu.

  • Dell promoting Ubuntu netbooks -- how and where?


Welcome to the WorksWithU Vodcast, Episode II, produced by contributing bloggers Joshua Chase and Nick Ali. This week we cover…

…such topics as:

  • Ubuntu One — the early word on Canonical’s file sharing and online storage system for Ubuntu.
  • Dell promoting Ubuntu netbooks — how and where?
  • Linux breaks one percent market share — or does it?

Josh and Nick are familiar names to many Ubuntu community members. Both are active in the Georgia Ubuntu Loco, and they speak regularly with Canonical insiders as well as Ubuntu industry leaders.

Feel free to post comments. We consider the vodcasts a work in progress, where Josh and Nick take time out of their busy schedules to bring you the latest chatter from across the Ubuntu universe.

WorksWithU is updated daily. Don’t miss a single post. Sign up for our RSS and Twitter feeds (available now) and newsletter (coming in 2009).

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6 comments

  1. Avatar Vadim P. May 21, 2009 @ 8:20 pm
    Reply

    I’m excited to see what kind of services people will come up with that utilize the UbuntuOne service. Also holding off my prime DropBox purchase until I get to try the thing out.

    Are you sure Statix is active? I found no contact info, and forums had the default threads from ’07.

  2. Avatar Jimbo May 22, 2009 @ 6:18 am
    Reply

    Like you say, Ubuntu One can’t compete with Dropbox as a pure storage thing, but lets not forget its going to be integrated into the whole OS in a way Dropbox can’t be. Imagine if you could sit down at any Ubuntu machine and have the entire OS with all the settings exactly how you have your main machine back at home. That makes the crude syncing of a single Dropbox folder look really lame in comparison. If you listen to to the latest Ubuntu UK podcast theres an interview with the developers and they make it quite clear theres a lot more coming to Ubuntu One that simply syncing up documents.

    Also, even if Ubuntu One never gains any killer features, the fact that it is exists and will be the default option for Ubuntu users will still generate some income for Canonical. Its like relatively speaking, no one uses Windows Live Search in comparison to Google, but the small percentage of users it does get is still huge business. Even if Ubuntu One only gets 5% of business and everyone else uses Dropbox that is still a bunch of income Canonical wouldn’t be getting otherwise.

    Thirdly, worse case scenario, lets say Ubuntu One only basically pays for itself and doesn’t really make any additional income for Canonical, it is still going to be a bullet point on the back of the box (if Ubuntu had a box). It is going to make people more comfortable about switching and generally make Ubuntu seem like a better OS than it would without. You can easily imagine the sales text now… “Completely Free, No viruses, 2GB online backup out of the box…” it all starts to add up into a compelling argument for computer newbies who just want something that works.

  3. Avatar Joe Panettieri May 22, 2009 @ 9:05 am
    Reply

    Jimbo: I like your arguments. A bunch of small, relatively successful services wrapped around Ubuntu could add up to larger success for Ubuntu itself … plus more successful users.

  4. Avatar Mike May 23, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
    Reply

    Hi, nice posts there 🙂 thank’s for the interesting information

  5. Avatar aikiwolfie May 24, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
    Reply

    I have a small hint. Dump the laptops. Use an off camera display for your prompts or idiot cards or whatever.

  6. Avatar phiphi May 27, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
    Reply

    Why don’t you write down the links you mention below in the description, so they are clickable?

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