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| developer =              Impi Linux (Pty) Ltd
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Following the POC at SITA, Impi Linux officially became a company, Impi Linux (PTY) Ltd, in February 2005. This was at SITA's request. SITA were unable to procure from a project, so a company had to be formed. Nick Venter and Howard Lowenthal assisted Andre Coetzee and Gary Fortuin to structure the new company.

In February 2005, the fledgling company setup shop in [[Rosebank]]
{{dn|date=February 2012}}, [[Johannesburg]], at which point Ross Addis joined Impi Linux full time (although on the Cubit Accounting payroll). 

In May 2005 Impi Linux exhibited at the first South African [[LinuxWorld Conference and Expo|LinuxWorld]] in [[Johannesburg]] with a sponsorship from Arivia.kom, a South African IT para-statal company.

In August 2005, the core of the Impi Linux team (consisting of Gary Fortuin, Francis Viviers and Ross Addis) started discussions with [[Mark Shuttleworth]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}} In September the deal was concluded when [[Mark Shuttleworth]], through his HBD venture capital company, invested R10 million into Impi Linux in return for 65% of the company. Two [[Canonical Ltd.]] employees in South(contracted; show full){{Ubuntu-distro}}
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