Jane Silber

Jane Silber is a board member of Canonical Ltd. and was its Chief Executive Officer from 2010 to 2017.

22 posts by Jane Silber

It’s official: Ubuntu now fits phones

by Jane Silber on 2 January 2013

Today we’re announcing our latest and, in my opinion, our most important ever product: Ubuntu is coming to the phone. When we began developing Unity a few...

A UDS restrospective

by Jane Silber on 18 May 2012

The Ubuntu Developer Summit last week was an incredible event. The energy, excitement and passion around Ubuntu was palpable in the sessions, hallways and...

A Précis for Precise

by Jane Silber on 24 April 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will be released to the world this Thursday and it’s going to be fantastic. We’ve known for quite a while that Ubuntu is not only beautiful,...

Make your voice heard in the open standards debate

by Jane Silber on 20 April 2012

If you’re a keen follower of all things open source, you might already know about the UK Government’s consultation on open software standards. In short, the...

Introducing the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix, by Canonical

by Jane Silber on 10 February 2012

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix based on Ubuntu 11.10 is now available for corporate and government institutions evaluating Ubuntu as a desktop solution. The...

Canonical realigns to better serve our customers

by Jane Silber on 21 October 2011

Canonical has grown dramatically over the last several years. This growth is driven by increasing demand for our services and products by end users,...

Thanks and good luck to Matt Asay

by Jane Silber on 8 December 2010

Matt Asay joined Canonical in February this year and quickly proved instrumental in aligning strategic goals and operational activities. Unfortunately for us,...

Management changes at Canonical

by Jane Silber on 17 December 2009

As Mark Shuttleworth has announced I will have the privilege of leading Canonical from March of next year. I am excited about the role, energised by the...

Keeping Ubuntu CDs available

by Jane Silber on 21 October 2009

The ShipIt program has been at the core of the Ubuntu project since its inception. The goal was to make sure that there are no restrictions, as far as was...

Why a Canonical blog?

by Jane Silber on 22 January 2008

Welcome to the Canonical Blog. The goal of the blog is to provide a vehicle for people who work for Canonical to respond to some of the questions we get...