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Canonical Ltd is committed to the development, distribution and promotion of open source software, and to the provision of commercial tools and support services on a global basis. Canonical's award-winning Ubuntu operating environment has been adopted as the preferred solution in governments, schools and businesses around the world. The company employs developers and support engineers across 15 countries and is headquartered in the Isle of Man.

On May 30, 2006, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Canonical Ltd. announced that Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support), the release of the widely popular GNU/Linux distribution, will support the UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor on Sun Fire(TM) T1000 and T2000 servers. Ubuntu GNU/Linux has achieved strong recognition on the desktop through its focus on ease-of-use and "it just works" user experience. With this announcement, Canonical brings that same focus to the server market, having chosen the UltraSPARC T1 processor as its vehicle into the datacenter.

"Ubuntu is arguably one of the most important - if not the most important - GNU/Linux distribution on the planet and will soon blaze new trails in support for SPARC-based servers," said John Fowler, executive vice-president, Systems, Sun Microsystems. "The availability of both Solaris and Linux-based operating systems on the Niagara platform will further expand our lead in delivering chip multi-threaded innovation and choice to customers."