"These laptops are the Swiss Army Knives of education computing. They give everyone equal access to the Internet – and a full and powerful computing device, instead of just a smartphone or a tablet."

"The demand for cloud services in research and education is taking momentum and Italy is no exception. GARR is applying to cloud computing the same successful community based model used for networking, setting up a Federated cloud rather than resorting just to public clouds. It is clear though that our …

"From a customer support perspective, the Big Board software running on the Ubuntu server has become indispensable in the technical support structure of the JHU Campus."

"We are happy about this partnership as our customers in India will have access to Ubuntu preloaded Thinkpad L450 laptop series."

"When we were evaluating possible server solutions, we asked Microsoft for some quotations on Microsoft Server 2003 for our servers and Microsoft Windows Vista for our desktops. The licensing costs ruled Microsoft out for us. Implementing Ubuntu on the servers and desktops in our business saved us at least £6,630 …

"The Ubuntu Server solution gives us peace of mind that our server infrastructure will always be up-to-date. We receive frequent updates and can upgrade to each new release every six months. With a more reliable infrastructure in place, we have greater confidence that users will be able to find the …

"Ubuntu is the ideal technology foundation for helping our customers increase service uptime and web response times. Working away faithfully in the background, Ubuntu ensures our customers can maximise their transactional revenues and deliver the best services for their own customers, day in, day out."

"The results have been fantastic. Ubuntu is very, very stable and the servers cope well with the lunch time ‘hit’. IT Lab usage has gone up during lunch and break times since we have been using Ubuntu. Plus, it has enabled us to increase the manageability of the network environment …

"Using Ubuntu in our smart vending experiences has provided a stable solution in which we can innovate and enhance the traditional vending machine to become smart. With the flexibility to use different versions of Ubuntu to suit each project needs, we have been able to create bespoke solutions across all …

"We wanted to harness the latest technologies to help us increase efficiency and deliver the best possible services to local citizens."

"With Ubuntu, we can be confident that we have an IT environment that is very reliable. We want our customers to focus on joule — not the technology it sits on — so the fact that they have no knowledge of the operating system is testament to its reliability. It’s …

"For the training centres, we chose Ubuntu because it builds on the software package management strengths of Debian, which is used at the Sanger Institute. And because it has out-of-the-box support for a wider range of hardware and local languages."

"We’re reinventing how we scale by becoming simpler and modular, similar to how applications have evolved in cloud data centers. Open source and OpenStack innovations represent a unique opportunity to meet these requirements and Canonical’s cloud and open source expertise make them a good choice for AT&T."

"At first, we just wanted to save money. But we never expected the free publicity that would result, nor did we expect to launch a profitable new business. For all our success so far, however, it still feels like we are at the beginning of our open source journey."

"The support has been fabulous. The whole team stepped up and helped us work through issues."