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Melissa Di Donato Appointed CEO of SUSE

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Re: Melissa Di Donato Appointed CEO of SUSE

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Post by mugsie »

It will be interesting to see how things change now - both SUSE and RedHat have gone from engineering leadership to business based leadership.

While there was a lot inside of SUSE that could have used more business focus, the ethos of the company is what made it so successful.

Re: Melissa Di Donato Appointed CEO of SUSE

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Post by buster »

craigsmansion wrote: post #2

From the end of the press release: ``About SUSE SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source company'' "Wait, isn't RedHat the lar... oooh, someone at SuSE marketing is on the ball."

It's right in the beginning of the press release and i find this marketing BS so unbearable that i didn't read any further. It's the typical BS i come to expect from venture capital owned companies (i've heard that all the time when i was working for one).

And how is Suse "independent" when it's owned by some swedish private equity group? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQT_Partners And, interestingly, see the german wikipedia entry for much more companies owned by EQT. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQT_(Unternehmen)

How is Suse independent, again?

Re: Melissa Di Donato Appointed CEO of SUSE

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Post by houseofzeus »

buster wrote: post #4
craigsmansion wrote: post #2

From the end of the press release: ``About SUSE SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source company'' "Wait, isn't RedHat the lar... oooh, someone at SuSE marketing is on the ball."

It's right in the beginning of the press release and i find this marketing BS so unbearable that i didn't read any further. It's the typical BS i come to expect from venture capital owned companies (i've heard that all the time when i was working for one). And how is Suse "independent" when it's owned by some swedish private equity group? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQT_Partners And, interestingly, see the germ…

My interpretation is that they and Red Hat are just as "independent" as each other. That is they can do whatever they want as long as they keep making money...but if they don't then they can and will be course corrected by their respective owners.

Re: Melissa Di Donato Appointed CEO of SUSE

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Post by buster »

houseofzeus wrote: post #5
buster wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's right in the beginning of the press release and i find this marketing BS so unbearable that i didn't read any further. It's the typical BS i come to expect from venture capital owned companies (i've heard that all the time when i was working for one). And how is Suse "independent" when it's owned by some swedish private equity group? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQT_Partners And, interestingly, see the germ…

My interpretation is that they and Red Hat are just as "independent" as each other. That is they can do whatever they want as long as they keep making money...but if they don't then they can and will be course corrected by their respective owners.

So, how is that independent? And i guess, that if both are equally "independent" then RedHat would be larger one, wouldn't it?

And what does "largest open source" mean, anyway? More employees? More customers? More revenue? More contributions to open source?

Re: Melissa Di Donato Appointed CEO of SUSE

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Post by mugsie »

buster wrote: post #4
craigsmansion wrote: post #2

From the end of the press release: ``About SUSE SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source company'' "Wait, isn't RedHat the lar... oooh, someone at SuSE marketing is on the ball."

It's right in the beginning of the press release and i find this marketing BS so unbearable that i didn't read any further. It's the typical BS i come to expect from venture capital owned companies (i've heard that all the time when i was working for one). And how is Suse "independent" when it's owned by some swedish private equity group? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQT_Partners And, interestingly, see the germ…

WHat was communicated at the time was that EQT was going to be "hands off", and allow the current management to continue operating SUSE as is.

Even under Microfocus they enjoyed a level of freedom usually associated with independent companies.

If the board was left as is, and EQT is just a shareholder, that could be considered independent - more so than RH + IBM where there was some integration, and RH was becoming a wing of IBM.

But this is all speculation on my part, so YMMV

Re: Melissa Di Donato Appointed CEO of SUSE

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Post by mugsie »

buster wrote: post #6
houseofzeus wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My interpretation is that they and Red Hat are just as "independent" as each other. That is they can do whatever they want as long as they keep making money...but if they don't then they can and will be course corrected by their respective owners.

So, how is that independent? And i guess, that if both are equally "independent" then RedHat would be larger one, wouldn't it? And what does "largest open source" mean, anyway? More employees? More customers? More revenue? More contributions to open source?

Biggest in terms of market cap afaik.

Re: Melissa Di Donato Appointed CEO of SUSE

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Post by rurban »

mugsie wrote: post #3

It will be interesting to see how things change now - both SUSE and RedHat have gone from engineering leadership to business based leadership. While there was a lot inside of SUSE that could have used more business focus, the ethos of the company is what made it so successful.

I don't believe that it will be interesting. It will be a catastrophe. For SUSE much worse than for RedHat. Hopefully this UK lead will be over soon.
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