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I'm curious if anyone knows why SUSE is going IPO?

mrweasel 6y ago
Perhaps because they’re owned by an investment company who now want their money back. The timing seems right, Redhat is now owned by IBM, so setting SuSE free to compete with Ubuntu and Redhat might be a smart move. Ubuntu is doing their own thing in many respects, and IBM pretty much removed RedHat from the stockmarket, and pissed of some people with CentOS. Those CentOS users need to look for a new distro.
- smnrchrds 6y ago
  > IBM pretty much removed RedHat from the market Could you please elaborate on this?
  - mrweasel 6y ago
    If you wanted to invest in a Linux company, RedHat was the go to company. Now that means buy IBM stock. I should have written: Removed RedHat from the stockmarket.
    - smnrchrds 6y ago
      That makes more sense. I thought it meant that IBM is sunsetting RedHat Linux distro.
- ghaff 6y ago
  If someone is moving off on CentOS Linux and doesn't want to start paying for RHEL, why would they want to pay either SUSE or Canonical instead? Certainly they could move to openSUSE but that makes them SUSE users, not customers. And users who have demonstrated they're willing to go through a migration to avoid paying.
  - aeyes 6y ago
    We pay SUSE and RedHat because enterprise customers demand support contracts with vendors. For everything else we just use CentOS. Also, both SUSE and RedHat have additional features locked behind the enterprise subscription. It might be open source but requires a license.
    - _wldu 6y ago
      This makes me wonder. What Linux does Google run? I'm guessing Debian.
      - ghaff 6y ago
        I believe their Linux desktops are Debian-based but my understanding is their servers run a highly customized version of Linux that really isn't based on and doesn't look like a conventional distro.
        abrowne 6y ago
        They used to use their own Ubuntu variant for desktops, but switched to their own Debian variant. And ChromeOS is based on Gentoo IIRC.
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  - hu3 6y ago
    I'm looking forward to https://rockylinux.org/ https://rockylinux.org/ By the same author of CentOS and promises to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise.
pelasaco 6y ago
my guess is: Investors want to make a good exit and then try to sell it to SAP.

Perhaps because they’re owned by an investment company who now want their money back. The timing seems right, Redhat is now owned by IBM, so setting SuSE free to compete with Ubuntu and Redhat might be a smart move. Ubuntu is doing their own thing in many respects, and IBM pretty much removed RedHat from the stockmarket, and pissed of some people with CentOS. Those CentOS users need to look for a new distro.

smnrchrds 6y ago
> IBM pretty much removed RedHat from the market Could you please elaborate on this?
- mrweasel 6y ago
  If you wanted to invest in a Linux company, RedHat was the go to company. Now that means buy IBM stock. I should have written: Removed RedHat from the stockmarket.
  - smnrchrds 6y ago
    That makes more sense. I thought it meant that IBM is sunsetting RedHat Linux distro.
ghaff 6y ago
If someone is moving off on CentOS Linux and doesn't want to start paying for RHEL, why would they want to pay either SUSE or Canonical instead? Certainly they could move to openSUSE but that makes them SUSE users, not customers. And users who have demonstrated they're willing to go through a migration to avoid paying.
- aeyes 6y ago
  We pay SUSE and RedHat because enterprise customers demand support contracts with vendors. For everything else we just use CentOS. Also, both SUSE and RedHat have additional features locked behind the enterprise subscription. It might be open source but requires a license.
  - _wldu 6y ago
    This makes me wonder. What Linux does Google run? I'm guessing Debian.
    - ghaff 6y ago
      I believe their Linux desktops are Debian-based but my understanding is their servers run a highly customized version of Linux that really isn't based on and doesn't look like a conventional distro.
      - abrowne 6y ago
        They used to use their own Ubuntu variant for desktops, but switched to their own Debian variant. And ChromeOS is based on Gentoo IIRC.
      - deleted 6y ago
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- hu3 6y ago
  I'm looking forward to https://rockylinux.org/ https://rockylinux.org/ By the same author of CentOS and promises to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise.

pelasaco 6y ago

my guess is: Investors want to make a good exit and then try to sell it to SAP.