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IBM And Intel Help Rescue SuSE From Insolvency

Posted by timothy on from the bread-gets-buttered dept.

mutantcamel writes: "A report on NetworkFusion states that SuSE has avoided insolvency thanks to a fresh round of investment that raised $45.5 million for the ailing company. IBM and Intel are among the players that have announced their support for the company. The rescue package comes after quite a turbulent time at SuSE HQ, but the company seems optimistic about the future."

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  1. Re:Article does not say a whole lot. by scotpurl · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. SuSE is big in Europe (posted above).
    2. SuSE actually bundles Lotus Domino server (IBM owns Lotus), if you want it, for Linux. see http://www.suse.com/us/products/index.html
    3. It also support DB2, and comes bundled (but RedHat does that, too).
    4. Oh, and you can buy an S/390 version.
    5. They contributed a lot to various Linux projects, especially Matrox video drivers (but that's my personal bias).

    I tried RedHat in the beginning, and then I tried SuSE. I found SuSE to be better, smoother implimentation of Linux, and I found the YAST sysadmin tool to be great at reminding me where to find things (transitioning from OSF/1 and AIX). Plus my hardware was never fully supported in RedHat, but it was in SuSE (which never made sense to me).

    Plus, I find it easier to rally behind the bad rendering of a cartoonish gecko than to rally behind a hat. (I mean, if we're talking kewl logos....)

  2. Re:Lets see by Arandir · · Score: 5, Informative

    Slackware never wanted to be a multi-million dollar commercial firm, so of course they're not. You measure success by the attainment of your goals, not by the attainment of someone else's goals.

    (oh, and LinuxPPC and Turbolinux aren't dead either)

    --
    A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
  3. Re:Stating the obvious by _Swank · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, IBM has stated numerous times (sorry, no links) that they don't want an "IBM Linux" of any sort.

    However they do have strategic partnerships with 4 different distributions -- Red Hat, SuSE, TurboLinux, and Caldera. These partnerships basically state that IBM and the distro company will ensure that IBM server software (DB2, Lotus Domino, WebSphere, MQSeries, etc) runs and is packaged properly for these distros. The partnerships have been in place for a year or two at least but were originally chosen to get a very wide coverage throughout the world (RedHat in US, SuSE in Europe, TurboLinux in Asia, and Caldera in Antartica(?)).

    Since SuSE and RedHat are probably the main 2 left of the original 4 (yes, TurboLinux and Caldera are still kicking -- some less than others) there is good reason that IBM make sure SuSE stay afloat.