Founded in 2004 in the United Kingdom, Canonical is the company behind the Linux distribution Ubuntu. Canonical supports, secures, and manages Ubuntu infrastructure and devices for thousands of businesses and millions of users around the world. Together with a community of 200,000, Canonical publishes an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.