EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
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Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#2This whole thing of private equity + companies getting massively inflated - only ends one way, it might not be this this buyer but one down the line, but there is something deeply wrong with the whole model, the one that starts with startups such as those funded by ycombinator.
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#3This whole thing of private equity + companies getting massively inflated - only ends one way, it might not be this this buyer but one down the line, but there is something deeply wrong with the whole model, the one that starts with startups such as those funded by ycombinator.
The point being someone is left holding the bag?
That's potentially true, but not necessarily. I haven't looked into this particular case, however it's entirely possible that a lot of the EU have started divesting from Windows and into suse, which has caused a big spike in revenue here.
Or its PE doing PE things and it's all a farce.
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#4This whole thing of private equity + companies getting massively inflated - only ends one way, it might not be this this buyer but one down the line, but there is something deeply wrong with the whole model, the one that starts with startups such as those funded by ycombinator.
Nobody uses SuseLinux any more. If SUSE gets 6 billion dollars and a private equity firm gets nothing valuable, there's nothing wrong with that.
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#5This whole thing of private equity + companies getting massively inflated - only ends one way, it might not be this this buyer but one down the line, but there is something deeply wrong with the whole model, the one that starts with startups such as those funded by ycombinator.
Nobody uses SuseLinux any more. If SUSE gets 6 billion dollars and a private equity firm gets nothing valuable, there's nothing wrong with that.
By "nobody" I presume you mean you and your friends?
From the article;
>> "More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power some of their workloads, according to the company."
This is an Enterprise version of Linux, and unless you are in the enterprise space you're unlikely to come across it.
Also from the article; >> "The company generates about $800 million in revenue "
So again, this suggests that people are indeed using it.
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#6This whole thing of private equity + companies getting massively inflated - only ends one way, it might not be this this buyer but one down the line, but there is something deeply wrong with the whole model, the one that starts with startups such as those funded by ycombinator.
Nobody uses SuseLinux any more. If SUSE gets 6 billion dollars and a private equity firm gets nothing valuable, there's nothing wrong with that.
> Nobody uses SuseLinux any more.
What gives you that impression? They had $700MM in revenue in 2022 and many HPC clusters run on Cray OS[1] (which is SLES).
> If SUSE gets 6 billion dollars
Not how sales work.
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#7This whole thing of private equity + companies getting massively inflated - only ends one way, it might not be this this buyer but one down the line, but there is something deeply wrong with the whole model, the one that starts with startups such as those funded by ycombinator.
Nobody uses SuseLinux any more. If SUSE gets 6 billion dollars and a private equity firm gets nothing valuable, there's nothing wrong with that.
Interesting. It's the only commercial distro I could ever stomach, in fact I really like it but don't use it, (because there's a non-commercial distro that I like much more). (Edit: my point was that it would feel like a real loss if it were to deteriorate)
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody uses SuseLinux any more. If SUSE gets 6 billion dollars and a private equity firm gets nothing valuable, there's nothing wrong with that.
By "nobody" I presume you mean you and your friends? From the article; >> "More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power some of their workloads, according to the company." This is an Enterprise version of Linux, and unless you are in the enterprise space you're unlikely to come across it. Also from the article; >> "The company generates about $800 million in revenue " So again, this suggests that people are…
Rancher/k3s is used a lot in many places as well.
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#9TIL SuSE does $800m revenue per year
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#10What does ‘enterprise Linux’ actually mean? Not asking snarkily; I’m curious what the main differences are between this and other Linux distros. Is it mostly about getting good tech support?