Tuesday, July 3rd 2018

Swedish Firm EQT Acquires SuSE from Microsoft-funded Previous Owners

Swedish company EQT, which invests heavily in tech stocks, and even owns tech IP, closed a deal with Micro Focus to acquire SuSE, lock stock and barrel. Over the past 15 years, SuSE changed many owners. In 2004, the Nuremberg-based Linux distributor was acquired by Novell. In 2010, Novell was swallowed by Attachmate, with funding from Microsoft. In 2014, ten years since its original foreign acquisition, Micro Focus acquired Attachmate and spun off SuSE as a separate division within the company. EQT purchased this division from Micro Focus in a deal valued at USD $2.5 billion.

Recognizable by its quirky chameleon mascot, SuSE's biggest product is SuSE Linux, a commercial distribution of Linux for enterprises, which integrates certain proprietary software and drivers, with a business-model similar to that of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). There's also a GNU-friendly, community-maintained free distribution of SuSE called OpenSuSE, which is made entirely of free and open-source software. The acquisition of SuSE is big, not just because of its valuation, but also because certain EU-based businesses and governments use it in their vital IT infrastructure. The EQT acquisition keeps SuSE within the EU.
Source: ZDNet
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3 Comments on Swedish Firm EQT Acquires SuSE from Microsoft-funded Previous Owners

#1
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
How many times will Suse Linux be handed off!?
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TheLostSwede
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eidairaman1How many times will Suse Linux be handed off!?
Until they no longer matter?
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Hood
TheLostSwedeUntil they no longer matter?
They already achieved that status once MS-funded Attachmate acquired them - the infamous Microsoft Kiss of Death.
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