Why a lot of companies now are switching to OpenSuse?
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Maybe because they like what it offers? Perhaps they favor a non US based distro? All speculation unless you start asking the companies "that are switching to openSUSE", why they did so. Also, who did you hear this from, where did you hear this...?
SUSE the company (not OpenSUSE the community project sponsored by SUSE the company) has been bragging about their involvement with SAP for a decade or longer. At the time, they used to be SAP's preferred or exclusive Linux vendor, if I remember well. Perhaps because both are originally German companies? I don't know whether that preferred status still exists now.
I would also like to know where there is evidence that openSUSE (or do you mean the commercial distro SUSE Linux Enterprise Server?) gains popularity.
Corporate support and a slightly cheaper support pricing. You never want a bean counter to make the decision between RHEL and SUSE Linux. Not that either choice is wrong, but they make it for all the wrong reasons. Listen to your SysAdmins for the technical advantages for your business!
Not terribly relevant, but the US gov will probably never use SUSE, simply because it is not US based. RHEL install are the order of the day. Silly perhaps but they are ultra finicky about this. It's only been 10 years since they actually started allowing the use of open source, which is idiotic but the decision makers do not understand what "open source" is. The prevailing belief is that if you can see the code, it is not secure. To this day, this attitude is prevalent, despite evidence to the contrary.
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While it was started in 1992 in Germany, wasn't it once owned by a U.S. company?
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On 4 November 2003, Novell announced the acquisition of SuSE Linux AG at a price of US$210 million.[9] Novell had been migrating away from the NetWare kernel and used this acquisition as a migration path for its customers.[10] The acquisition was completed on 13 January 2004,.......
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.....Novell was in turn acquired by The Attachmate Group on 27 April 2011.[12] Under its new owner, SUSE remained a separate company.[13] By June 2012, many former SUSE engineers who had been laid off during Novell's ownership had been brought back.[14]
Attachmate and Micro Focus merger
On 20 November 2014, The Attachmate Group and Micro Focus International finalized their merger, making Micro Focus International SUSE's new parent company. SUSE operates as a semi-autonomous business unit within the Micro Focus Group, with former president Nils Brauckmann promoted to CEO and member of the Micro Focus Group board......[15]
Attachemate was based in Texas and Micro Focus was (is still?) British.
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......The first Linux product sold was an extension of the Linux distribution Slackware, which was delivered on 40 floppy disks. The company translated the distribution in cooperation with the Slackware founder Patrick Volkerding into German. While the core of the distribution remained Slackware, in May 1996, S.u.S.E. released its first own distribution based on the Jurix distribution published by Florian La Roche.....
Honestly I tried setting up CentOS on an old tower to keep my Red Hat skills up to par, and it took soo much fighting to get anything to work. Ended up switching to Oracle Linux, which isn't much better. Fedora would even run better.....
I think a bigger reason may be the fact that now SUSE is independent, and Red Hat is a subsidiary. People probably feel more comfortable with their being a greater likelihood of vendor neutrality. SUSE definitely boasted about it on their website. When Red Hat was bought out, everyone from Ars Technica writers to random Physics professors expressed concern over the end of their independence.
SUSE has really awesome marketing, too. Brauckmann seems to have done a solid job if he held out through several ownership changes and had that much growth, and Melissa DiDonato who just became CEO is outright just brilliant and inspiring.
Last edited by wagscat123; 02-09-2020 at 08:52 PM.
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