Ubuntu's future

What do you think about Ubuntu's future ?
They launch Ubuntu Certified Professional (UCP) certificate, and probably in future will be for engineer certificate too.
In future they will start charge for server edition , but it's a long way for that day to come.
So what do you think will Ubuntu survive, and have a large impact in Linux world ?
I mean it's all good until Mark Shuttleworth gives his money .... but that will slowly end some day.
Feel free to give your comments
Thanks
They launch Ubuntu Certified Professional (UCP) certificate, and probably in future will be for engineer certificate too.
In future they will start charge for server edition , but it's a long way for that day to come.
So what do you think will Ubuntu survive, and have a large impact in Linux world ?
I mean it's all good until Mark Shuttleworth gives his money .... but that will slowly end some day.
Feel free to give your comments

Thanks


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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/102708-shuttleworth-canonical-may-need-3-5.html
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See it's not easy to get into server, it has to compete with Solaris, IBM AIX, Red Hat, and SuSE.
They need to have a good support, even Red Hat is not competing well with AIX and Solaris because of the support, I don't see Ubuntu in the area any time soon, but who knows !