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Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023

• phendrenad2 5y ago
  Is this the "IBM come buy us" signal?
  • Mikeb85 5y ago
    IBM already has Red Hat so maybe Amazon or Google...
    • phendrenad2 5y ago
      They can always collect more!
• tssva 5y ago
  "He noted that Canonical’s revenue last year was $175 million and that the company’s biggest challenge right now is that demand is bigger that the company’s ability to service it, in large part because there isn’t enough talent on the market for the company to hire." Maybe the problem isn't a lack of enough talent on the market but a lack of talent on the market that is willing to complete your insane red flag raising hiring process. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735678
• easton 5y ago
  I'm still kind of surprised Microsoft never tried to buy them. Maybe they'd get a wack by the FTC (since they'd own one of the most used Linux server OSes and the biggest non-Linux server OS) but it seems like it would of been a natural fit alongside GitHub (not to mention Ubuntu just about ships with Windows these days given "wsl --install" automatically installs it on a stock install).