Skip to main content
  1. Blog
  2. Article

Petra Puchelova
on 25 June 2012

Helping Zentyal offer an open-source alternative for small businesses


As of last week, we are supporting our Spanish partner, Zentyal, in their provision of software and services to small and medium-sized businesses.

Zentyal distribute an operating system of the same name – and it’s based on Ubuntu. It’s designed to offer small and medium-sized businesses easy, low-maintenance access to all the essential business IT capabilities. Alongside the software itself, they include cloud services and support, providing a one-stop shop to answer their customers’ IT needs. The agreement means we’ll be supporting Zentyal in the delivery of these services to its customers.

Ignacio Correas, CEO of Zentyal, explained: “This agreement allows Zentyal and its partners to provide complete Linux infrastructure solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Although Linux in the enterprise is nothing new, comparable vendor-backed solutions for SMBs simply didn’t exist until now.”

Andrew Cooper, our EMEA Channel Manager, added: “SMB customers can now benefit from Ubuntu-based solutions that might otherwise would be out of their reach. Zentyal has a great deal of experience in the SMB market and, together with their authorised partners, they’ll do a great job in delivering Ubuntu-based solutions for their customers.”

The worldwide, multi-year agreement aims to address the growing IT needs of the SMB sector during tough economic times, offering easy-to-use Linux IT infrastructure solutions and
services for SMBs. And importantly, it represents the first time Canonical has agreed to provide embedded Ubuntu support for a solution from another open-source vendor.

To learn more please join Canonical-Zentyal live webinar on Tuesday 26th June:
http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6793/50463

To contact Zentyal about their services, please contact:
Ignacio Correas, CEO, Zentyal
E-mail: icorreas@zentyal.com
Phone: +34 685 876 033

Related posts


Miguel Divo
22 May 2026

Decoding design: How design and engineering thrive together in open source

Design Design

Open source thrives on engineering-driven processes. Fast feedback loops, terminal tools, Git workflows: they’re the lifeblood of how we build software in the open. But for software to truly excel, we need to create user experiences that empower people to use them. I wanted to bring this conversation into the spotlight as part of Canonica ...


Abdelrahman Hosny
21 May 2026

Developing web apps with local LLM inference

AI Article

I’ve yet to meet a developer that enjoys working with metered AI APIs. The need to pay for every API call in development works in direct opposition to the ethos of rapid iteration, and it’s easy for the costs to get out of hand. That’s why Canonical has created a different approach to building AI-powered ...


Luci Stanescu
21 May 2026

PinTheft Linux kernel vulnerability mitigation

Ubuntu Article

A local privilege escalation (LPE) security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, codename “PinTheft,” was publicly disclosed on May 19, 2026. The vulnerability was fixed in the mainline Linux kernel tree. A proof-of-concept exploit was published along with public disclosure. The vulnerability does not have a CVE ID assigned at the moment; o ...