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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. They saved suse because suse supports them! by cybrthng · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Suse is the only distro that will support

    1) IBM Products
    2) Oracle Products
    3) Commercial Software.

    Suse knows linux is an operating system. Suse is very stable yet ahead of the game compared to US based distros.

    If i use Suse linux i can replace expensive NT and Solaris servers running Oracle 9iAS and Databases. Redhat, many times over has told me to buy there 2,500.00 Redhat for Oracle (which is 6.0 based and pretty crappy) and do all sorts of hacks to get any recent rdbms working.

    On the other hand, sude made sure that 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 works with these commercials apps because that is where they get the demand for the OS.

    Believe me, free software doesn't demand anything, but business requirments do. Redhat database doesn't cut it for anything other then a website and frankly, its very microsoft of Redhat to try and produce everything under the sun for there os.

    So yeah, under suse you can run Domino, DB2, Oracle 9ias, Oracle 9i, Oracle8, oracle forms and reports, oracle forms developer and all the crap every other distro supports.

    And usually people pay for OS support when business software relies on it.