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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's competence in software development has been going down every year for the last 20 years.
IBM acquiring RedHat is a disaster (for RedHat). Companies would be wise to start their plans to transition to another Linux distribution now.
This is all part of the PR avalanche that follows any conference. It goes like this:
1. Chest-thumping We Are The Greatest __________
2. Lob volleys of crap at competition.
3. Parade the business partners, all with canned quotes.
4. Steal the future, declare financial prowess, mention growth.
5. Parade the business partners again.
6. Love fest at 6pm, free beer and maybe finger food.
7. Sign up those devs, see #6.
8. Schmooze Schmooze Schmooze
9. Joint press releases + show floor + geek games
10. Pack it up for next time. Rinse, repeat.
MicroFoscus is trying to make money from SUSE's departure. Can a vastly diffuse organization where parts are in the UK, US, and EU actually make it? Maybe. There's good quality software, but they have all the pinache of a dead sponge. They need some Elon Dust (tm) or at least a heartbeat.
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C Enums: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish,
Operating systems: The Linax
Artificial Intelligence: Hunches In Bunches
Bash ; the cat in the hat
Green Eggs And Spam email
Boolean logic: O, The Thinks You Can Think!
Stacks and Queues: Hop on Pop
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I'd be happy to be wrong about this, but there's no free (as in beer) version of their enterprise offerings. IOW no equivalent of Dead Rat's CentOS.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Is Suse larger than Canonical? Surprised if so.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Novell days were actually pretty good and saw major improvements to SUSE Linux. SUSE became more useable then with a fast and functional package manager whereas before package management was a big mess. zypp was developed under the Novell period which really make SUSE first class with a fast package manager. Yast was also fully open sourced at this time and also uses the zypp infrastructure. You have a choice between command line package management with zypper or to use Yast now so you really can have it either way.
I've been using Suse/OpenSUSE since 7.2 and it's been great, except for the switch to systemd which was annoying (I now use FreeBSD for web services because of that). It's a really good distribution with a lot of support and packages available and I am glad they are doing well. Once my Win7 support expires I'm switching to them probably for full-time desktop use.
12:50 - press return.
SUSE was distro that introduced me to linux. Though I no longer use it, I will always remember it as my first. I am still using linux about around 15 years later. Might have to give it a try again to see how well it aged :-)