It's another small step for Canonical's Ubuntu business, and a giant leap forward for the company's Landscape management platform. The new Landscape 1.3 release allows IT managers and resellers to remotely administer physical or virtual servers within a corporate network or on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). But this is more than a technology story.

When Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) arrives in April 2009, Canonical plans to introduce a separate surprise as well - a new version of Landscape. Never heard of it? Landscape (image courtesy of Canonical) is a software as a service (SaaS) platform that allows network administrators and channel partners to remotely manage Ubuntu servers, desktops and mobile devices.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, is considering a new version of its Landscape remote management tool that may appeal to solutions providers and service providers. Here’s the scoop.

In this WorksWithU podcast, editorial director Joe Panettieri speaks with Ken Drachnik, Landscape manager at Canonical. Landscape is Canonical's remote management and monitoring tool for Ubuntu systems.

This is part two of WorksWithU's podcast with Ken Drachnik, Landscape manager at Canonical. This discussion specifically covers Landscape Dedicated Server Edition - which runs on-premise and allows IT administrators to manage Ubuntu systems. Here's a minute-by-minute list describing the conversation...

Opportunity is knocking in the government market for Canonical's Landscape, a systems management and monitoring tool for Ubuntu systems. Specifically, Autonomic Resources - an integrator that serves the U.S. federal government - is now approved to offer Landscape to government customers running Ubuntu, WorksWithU has learned. Here are some quick details.

Canonical remains committed to Landscape - the remote systems management platform for Ubuntu. But one of the Landscape team members has joined Dell, according to sources close to the hardware giant. Here's the update.

Canonical is offering a dedicated, local version of its Landscape systems management and monitoring server for Ubuntu, rather than insist you access the service through the company's own systems. Canonical will next month launch the Landscape Dedicated Server, which is a local copy of the current Landscape service.

Canonical is diversifying the ways it delivers Landscape - a remote management tool for Ubuntu servers, desktops and mobile devices.