Richard Brown, president of openSUSE. sent an email post officey on July 2, announcing that openSUSE's main sponsor, SUSE, has been sold to an organization called EQT Partners.
The impact that the SUSE Linux Enterprise market will have on openSUSE remains to be seen, but Brown says that the development of openSUSE project will continue as before.
Nils Brauckmann (CEO of SUSE Linux Enterprise) took me personally this morning to assure me that this news will not have a negative impact on openSUSE. This will be SUSE's third acquisition by creation of openSUSE, and the second led by Nils and his team. Just like it happened on other occasions, SUSE will not change its relationship between the company and the openSUSE project. SUSE remains committed to supporting the openSUSE community, which plays a key role in the company's success, which is expected to continue cooperation with EQT.
Recall that in recent years, the European company SUSE Linux has changed owners several times.
It was bought by Novell in 2004. Attachmate, then funded by Microsoft, bought Novell and SUSE in 2010. In 2014, Micro Focus bought Attachmate and SUSE continued as an independent division. Today we learned that SUSE announced that EQT will buy the division from Micro Focus for 2,5 billionmillions dollars.
The acquisition is subject to approval by Micro Focus's shareholders and regulators, which is expected to be completed at the beginning of 2019.
It remains to be seen the developments, surely the friends of the distribution are watching….
Read the company announcement.
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