Micro Focus paid around $8.8 billion USD for the HPE Software division, while SUSE then went on to acquire additional programming talent and OpenStack + Cloud Foundry software code from HPE in another partnership deal in 2017. In 2014, Attachmate was bought by Micro Focus for $2.35 billion USD, where SUSE Linux then acquired some new assets from HPE Software in 2016 as part of a major corporate merger following the Autonomy deal writedown. The Attachmate Group acquired Novell in 2010, when it was a publicly traded company, in a $2.2 billion USD deal backed by Microsoft, including SUSE Linux as a stand-alone division. The openSUSE distro was launched after the company's initial acquisition by Novell in 2003. In 2017, SUSE reported annual sales of $320 million from their software products, consulting, and other services, with around 1400 employees on staff. The company has major partnerships with HPE, SAP, IBM, Cisco, Dell, Lenovo, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Huawei, & SuperMicro in their client base. There are SUSE Enterprise Linux distros available specifically for deployment with VMware, Amazon EC2, and Microsoft Azure. The company also offers a desktop version of the OS for corporations, government agencies, and other complex organizations to use. SUSE Enterprise Linux is available in various packaged distributions designed specifically for workstations, virtual machines (VMs), ARM devices, volume storage applications, and high performance computing.
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The enterprise distro is their flagship product, designed for stability, security, and the ability to be customized for the data center needs of large corporations, while the free version is community supported with the Tumbleweed and Leap versions designed primarily for use on desktop computers. SUSE currently manages two main Linux distros, SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 and openSUSE. SUSE Linux: Corporate History and Fallout from the HP-Autonomy Deal in 2011 Together with EQT we will benefit both from further investment opportunities and having the continuity of a leadership team focused on securing long-term profitable growth combined with a sharp focus on customer and partner success.” Commenting on the deal, SUSE CEO Nils Brauckmann stated, “By partnering with EQT, we will become a fully independent business. SUSE Linux has recently launched new OpenStack Cloud (IaaS/PaaS) and Kubernetes Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) product lines to provide customized open source software solutions to business organizations around the world. The SUSE Linux Enterprise distro managed by the company under licensing agreements competes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu, & CentOS primarily in the web server market sector. SUSE (an acronym for "Software und System Entwicklung") is one of the oldest and most highly respected of the enterprise Linux development companies, founded in 1992 by Roland Dyroff, Burchard Steinbild, Hubert Mantel and Thomas Fehr, with headquarters currently in Nuremberg, Germany. Under terms of the agreement, Micro Focus (who acquired SUSE as part of a merger in 2014 with the Attachmate Group) will transfer the business assets of SUSE to a new holding company (Blitz 18-679 GmbH) wholly-owned by EQTVIII SCSp (EQT). SUSE Developers to Expand Product Line of OpenStack & Kubernetes Cloud Servicesįallout from the HP-Autonomy deal in 2011 continues as SUSE Linux announced this month that it had secured independence from Micro Focus in a $2.535 billion USD buy-out deal negotiated with the Swedish private equity firm EQT.
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