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SUSE Will Soon Be the Largest Independent Linux Company (qz.com)
At SUSECon in Nashville, Tennessee, European Linux power SUSE CEO Nils Brauckmann said his company would soon be the largest independent Linux company. "That's because, of course, IBM is acquiring Red Hat," reports ZDNet.
"But, simultaneously, SUSE has continued to grow for seven-straight years." From the report: Brauckmann said, "We believe that makes our status as a truly independent open source company more important than ever. Our genuinely open-source solutions, flexible business practices, lack of enforced vendor lock-in, and exceptional service are more critical to customer and partner organizations, and our independence coincides with our single-minded focus on delivering what is best for them." Practically speaking, SUSE has been growing by focusing on delivering high-quality Linux and open-source programs and services to enterprise customers. Looking ahead Brauckmann said, "SUSE is better positioned to bring more innovation to customers and partners faster through both organic growth and acquisitions, keeping us on track to provide them with the open solutions that keep them ahead with their own customers in their own markets. We continue to adapt so our customers and partners can succeed."
Last year SUSE's revenue grew by 15 percent in fiscal year 2018, and the business is about to surpass the $400 million revenue mark for the first time. SUSE, which sees not quite half of its business in Europe, is also seeing revenue growth around the world. North America, for example, now accounts for almost 40 percent of SUSE's revenues. The company is also expanding. SUSE added more than 300 employees in the last 12 months. For the most part this has been in engineering followed by sales and services. SUSE staff is now approaching 1,750 globally and its plans on continuing to hire aggressively.
Last year SUSE's revenue grew by 15 percent in fiscal year 2018, and the business is about to surpass the $400 million revenue mark for the first time. SUSE, which sees not quite half of its business in Europe, is also seeing revenue growth around the world. North America, for example, now accounts for almost 40 percent of SUSE's revenues. The company is also expanding. SUSE added more than 300 employees in the last 12 months. For the most part this has been in engineering followed by sales and services. SUSE staff is now approaching 1,750 globally and its plans on continuing to hire aggressively.
IBM had no choice but to buy Redhat, the decision forced on it by a corrupt and incompetent US government and security letters and companies like M$ and Google all to happy to hack other countries citizens, for a cash reward of course, especially their politicians so they can be blackmailed by US intelligence services at the behest of entirely corrupt US corporations.
The only safe choice forced upon the rest of the globe, whilst trying to retain interoperability, is Linux and other major open source projects. The can strip control of the US government over their infrastructure and get rid of the backdoors, at least on the software side by using open source software, maintained on their servers inside their countries and supervised by their intelligence services. The hardware side, does require a much greater spend, a government manufacturer of electronic communication products, regardless of the cost of doing so, this cost reduce by open source chip designs.
US corporations either make a big investment in open source software or be destroyed competitively in the rest of the world, due to the incompetent corrupt shenanigans of US government agencies and the loss in trust in anything coming out of the US related to anything technological.
The US practically announced back doors in all their stuff, when they attacked Turkey for buying S400 which will shoot down US jets, versus any US anti-air systems which have all been back doored not to shoot down US jets. Now they don't get F35s, well, no loss there because US missiles that don't shoot down US jets, means US jets sold to other nations with back doors as well, fall right out of the sky on command and if the enemy gets that command, well, thanks US, all your allies jets supplied by the US just fell out of the sky (they are really, well and truly stupid enough to build that in, control freaks, it is inevitable, it's their idiotic nature, they think everyone is as corrupt as they are).
The US is slowly but surely killing US tech companies in foreign environments because everyone knows neither can be trusted. IBM is making a smart move, because it will still be able to install and manage open source in other countries via IBM subsidiaries based in those countries answerable only to those governments. M$ is becoming nothing but an unwanted shite stain and Google is pretty much already there.
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