Color me shocked that SUSE was worth 6 billion. Good for them.
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
#12What 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?
Yeah it's about support contracts, which covers a lot of services actually such as maintaining security audited package repositories. But most importantly it's about support life cycles you can rely on for a long term investment of time and infrastructure outlays.
For example, RHEL 10 has a planned support phase out until 2035, with extended support available until 2038.
They do tend to have a different goal for their intial installation and configuration to consumer distros, with a focus on security and providing tools you will need in an enterprise hosting environment.
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#13This 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.
Maybe for your personal workstation this might be the experience you have.
But from my experience for enterprise there is RHEL, Suse and maybe Ubuntu Pro.
If you are an AWS Enterprise customer you might justify Amazon Linux
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#14This 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.
It's still quite popular with SAP shops here in Europe at least. And I could imagine that the strong anti-American sentiment in Europe plays in its favor.
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There’s also harvester on top of rancher. It’s one of the very few open source competitors to RedHats OpenShift that I’m aware of.
I mostly like their use of an immutable OS as base layer for the virtualization - despite the limitations it sometimes has.
Re: 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
#17Earlier 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…
Over 60% are SUSE?! Sorry, but I’m with everyone else…
I remember since the start that SUSE was more popular in Europe, but no way would that be the case in the US. If anything, I’d be willing to put my money on > 60% of Linux installs being RHEL/Centos rather than SUSE
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Over 60% are SUSE?! Sorry, but I’m with everyone else… I remember since the start that SUSE was more popular in Europe, but no way would that be the case in the US. If anything, I’d be willing to put my money on > 60% of Linux installs being RHEL/Centos rather than SUSE
You could get the number wrong. The quote stated that 60% of the companies use Suse to power some of the workloads. So if most of these companies would use Suse to host SAP, some have a few teams using Rancher and some (more so in Europe ) are using Sles you still get to these numbers even if most of them use RedHat for most of their workloads.
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rancher/k3s is used a lot in many places as well.
There’s also harvester on top of rancher. It’s one of the very few open source competitors to RedHats OpenShift that I’m aware of. I mostly like their use of an immutable OS as base layer for the virtualization - despite the limitations it sometimes has.
Harvester is just Kubevirt with some UI atop it, the same as Redhat Virt. Works fine if you’re hosting datacenters or whatever, haven’t seen it be suitable in smaller manufacturing environment
Re: EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say
#20This 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.
SuSE is about the 2nd most used distro in the enterprise, and I can understand why.