SUSE, the Linux company that was once Novell and now MicroFocus, very soon it will go to the Swedish firm called EQT Partners for the sum of 2.5 billion dollars.
After Novell and MicroFocus, this is SUSE's third acquisition and, on paper at least, it has a good impact for the company to become a separate business once acquired by EQT Partners, a development-focused investor. with a lot of experience in the software industry.
"Today is a very exciting day in the history of SUE. By doing business with EQT, we will become a totally independent business. The next chapter in SUSE development will continue and accelerate the momentum generated in recent years”. Mentions Nils Bracukmann, SEO at SUSE.
Following the acquisition, which is expected to take place in early 2019, SUSE will continue to receive more investment opportunities that will expand the business of selling Linux-based solutions to companies of all sizes.
Today, SUSE is known for developing various Linux products for business, starting with the well-known SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server (SLED and SLES), continuing with SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension, Live Patching, ARM Server, and SLES for IBM and LinuxONE systems.
There is also good news for users of openSUSE, the SUSE sponsored distribution. Both parties to the purchase have said that the openSUSE project will not be affectedeven the head of openSUSE, Richard Brown, released a statement on the mailing list assuring that the purchase will not have a negative impact.
Richard Brown assured that SUSE will continue to support the open software project which publishes the openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE Leap distributions to the Linux community.