Ubuntu Server Edition Training… From Mark Shuttleworth?
When Canonical this May launches an online training course for Ubuntu Server Edition, the virtual classroom will include a special guest speaker: Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth. Here’s the scoop, and how to attend if you’re interested.
The Canonical training will be available both online (in May) and in face-to-face sessions (starting in June). According to Canonical’s blog, the five-day face-to-face course is:
“designed for intermediate-to-advanced system administrators working in organisations which are about to deploy, or have already deployed, Ubuntu desktops and servers in the office.”
But the real fun starts online, where Shuttleworth will be a guest speaker in virtual classrooms that open Monday, May 4. You can find more details here.
Server Push Continues
The new training course is the latest step in Canonical’s Ubuntu Server Edition push. Recent highlights include:
- RightScale and Turnkey Linux, respectively, each promoting Ubuntu server applications in various clouds.
- Canonical piecing together a directory services strategy to help Ubuntu Server Edition compete more effectively against Windows Server and Active Directory.
- Unison Technologies launching a unified communications system on Ubuntu.
- Plans for Hewlett-Packard to certify Ubuntu on ProLiant servers.
- A Canonical user survey highlighting Ubuntu Server Edition’s continued momentum.
Missing Pieces
Frankly, I’m impressed with Canonical’s server progress this year. But key components — particularly an Ubuntu-oriented Small Business Server to compete with Microsoft Small Business Server — remain missing in action.
And a channel push, inspiring more VARs and solutions providers to get behind Ubuntu, remains long overdue. That may begin to change when Shuttleworth walks into his virtual training session. But the Ubuntu Server Edition strategy is going to take years to unfold.
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Good to see professional training happening.
I also agree that Mark has to push for the SMB market. There’s a huge base of people there.
To get Ubuntu server out there, having professional training is a must.
Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop training is the way to go.
Go, go, go.
I’m curious to see if/when Canonical offers a more formal Ubuntu small business server system bundle, plus training and certification around it. The Microsoft Small Business Server world seems pretty huge and continues to grow. Wonder if Mark and Canonical want a piece of that action…
You are forgetting the biggest showstopper in the smb market: No GUI. The MS server comes with the same familiar desktop GUI that people already know. So they already know all the basics and just need to learn the server specific config tools. Makes everything a lot easier.
Web gui is also a very strange thing on a server like this. It is something you expect from a router or switch, but not from a server. Shure, remote admin possibility should be there, but VNC is working just fine.
If you are going to install Linux desktops and servers, it would help if they at least are running the same interface.