On 01/07/06, Vid Ayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
potential scope in getting Corporate clients to actually pay for Canonical/Ubuntu customised software services or generate revenue based on long term-contracts, 24/7 support, etc....
At this point, it would be interesting to know how the Marketing team hopes to achieve this goal.
I'd say it's important to remember that Canonical and Ubuntu are two different things. Ubuntu is a project and community based around providing a free, Linux-based operating system. Canonical is that project's sponsor and main champion. It's true that the two are linked but, in terms of corporate-level services, I think we should look to communicate the full ecosystem of support etc. Canonical is quite keen to push that too, so again there is plenty of crossover, but unless Canonical specifically want us to get involved, I don't think our job is to promote Canonical's paid-for services. I want Canonical's paid-for services to succeed, but we're not in a position to market them: we don't know their strategy, the scope of what they can provide, etc. However, we can take advantage of them by using them as a selling point when targetting corporates, if we chose to go down that route. -- Matthew Revell www.understated.co.uk -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
