Pouring in some of the money he made from selling his company, Thawte, to VeriSign in 1999 for more than half a billion dollars, Shuttleworth funded a team of developers for Ubuntu. The first official release was version 4.10 – so named because of its October (10th month), 2004 release date. Version 4.10 was also known as “Warty Warthog,” establishing the first of the alliterative animal code names by which versions would subsequently be distinguished.