{"id":84,"date":"2009-09-23T21:36:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/ibm-and-canonical-takes-on-africa\/"},"modified":"2009-09-23T21:36:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:36:38","slug":"ibm-and-canonical-takes-on-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/ibm-and-canonical-takes-on-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM and Canonical takes on Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sutor.com\/newsite\/blog-open\/?p=4288\">Bob Sutor&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; partnership between IBM and Canonical to provide a software package for users of netbooks and other thin clients in Africa. The package, which can be configured in several ways to provide both netbook-based and cloud-based software, is expected to drive new business for local partners by taking advantage of open standards, file sharing, email, and social network capabilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is very relevant to me and where I am.&nbsp; The CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonical.com\/\">Canonical<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markshuttleworth.com\/\">Mark Shuttleworth<\/a>, is a South African and I work for IBM in Africa, and South Africa in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ibm\" rel=\"tag\">ibm<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/canonical\" rel=\"tag\">canonical<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/symphony\" rel=\"tag\">symphony<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bob Sutor&#8217;s blog &#8230; partnership between IBM and Canonical to provide a software package for users of netbooks and other thin clients in Africa. The package, which can be configured in several ways to provide both netbook-based and cloud-based software, is expected to drive new business for local partners by taking advantage of open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,5,4],"tags":[87,121,88,118],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-canonical","tag-ibm","tag-symphony","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-1m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}