Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth says that his Linux based operating system is going great guns with more than 10 million people running the beast.

He claimed that Ubuntu represents a serious threat to Microsoft's hegemony in developed countries and perhaps even more so in those regions catching up to the technology revolution.

Speaking to the Ubuntu Developer Summit that if the OS was successful it will fundamentally change the operating system market.  Microsoft would need to adapt, and he didn't think that would be unhealthy.

Close to half of Google's 20,000 employees use a slightly modified version of Ubuntu, playfully called Goobuntu. A spokesgoogle told the International Herald Tribune that Ubuntu had captured people's imaginations around the Linux desktop. 

It would be the greatest bet for open-source software at Google. "If there is a hope for the Linux desktop, it would be them," they said.
 
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