Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?
ruphus13 writes “Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, claims that the company is very close to the M mark, at which point, they will be a self-sustaining company. While people feel that this should not worry Microsoft, the real question is whether a 10,000 person effort on a failure like Vista can actually be the paradigm of a long-term strategy. From the article: ‘Microsoft had 10,000 people [the article is unclear whether these were all developers, or administrative and support staff were factored in] working on Vista for a five year period … huge profits in any given year can mean relatively little five years on. Canonical’s self-sustaining revenue may not be threatening — but it leaves one wondering how sustainable Microsoft’s development process really is.'”
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