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from the rearranging-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic dept.
Canonical CEO Jane Silber announced her departure yesterday, seven years after then-CEO Shuttleworth asked her to take over the company's top spot. She previously served as Canonical's chief operating officer.
"I originally agreed to be CEO for five years and we’ve extended my tenure as CEO by a couple of years already," Silber wrote. "We’ve been preparing for a transition for some time by strengthening the executive leadership team and maturing every aspect of the company, and earlier this year Mark and I decided that now is the time to effect this transition. Over the next three months I will remain CEO but begin to formally transfer knowledge and responsibility to others in the executive team. In July, Mark will retake the CEO role and I will move to the Canonical Board of Directors."
During Silber's years as CEO, Shuttleworth still played a key role in company strategy and product design and continued to invest his personal fortune in the company so that it could expand into new areas such as smartphones. But last week, Shuttleworth announced that Canonical will stop working on Unity 8, the user interface that was supposed to act as a bridge between the phone and desktop. Canonical is halting its phone and tablet development and next year will switch back to GNOME on the desktop.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday April 14 2017, @06:33PM
Seems just as likely its a huge communication failure.
Ubuntu on phones!!! Like that was ever going to generate one red cent of revenue. A total boondoggle with no market potential.
Worse, the unity crap started to affect the mainstream product. (Just like Microsoft).
Yet, regardless of who started it (I have no clue, I haven't used Ubuntu in years) it was assumed it was a priority by one party probably because they assumed it was a priority to the other party. Nobody dared point out the emperor had no cloths until it became financially un-deniable.
Fall back to Gnome also seems questionable. Especially given the current state of Gnome. Maybe they will remove the last bit of functionality in that interface in the name of simplicity and call it a day.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.