SUSE

The SUSE Linux GmbH is a software company whose main products the same Linux distributions as well as the customer service derselbigen are. It is a subsidiary of The Attachmate Group, USA.

Company History

In September 1992, Roland Dyroff, Burchard stone image, Hubert jacket and Thomas Fehr founded the " Society for Software and System Development GmbH". The name S.u.S.E. stood as an acronym for software and system development. First own Linux product, an expansion of the Linux distribution Slackware was sold, which was delivered on 40 floppy disks. The company translated the distribution in cooperation with the Slackware founder Patrick Volkerding into German. However, the core of the distribution was Slackware, SuSE up, published in May 1996 the first own distribution based on the distribution of Jurix Florian La Roche.

Opened in 1997 S.u.S.E. an office in Oakland. 1998 moved the headquarters to Fürth to Nuremberg in December 1998, the company name (company) of SuSE was changed to SuSE. During the following time SuSE then opened a total of six national and four international ( USA, Czech Republic, Great Britain and Italy) branches. On 25 November 2002, Richard Seibt CEO of SuSE.

On November 4, 2003 Novell announced the acquisition of SuSE Linux AG at a price of 210 million U.S. dollars. The transaction was stronger foothold in the market of operating systems walking through the Novell again, was completed on 13 January 2004 and was accompanied by the change of name from SuSE Linux AG in the form of society SUSE Linux GmbH and SUSE Linux Products GmbH. SUSE Linux Products GmbH performs all development work and was led by Markus Rex, who was responsible for the entire world's Linux business, Novell simultaneously. When taking both the partner and the sales organizations in Novell were integrated. Richard Seibt was EMEA CEO of Novell. He left on May 9, 2005 without giving reasons the company.

In August 2005 we started with the launch of the openSUSE community project to open the development of SUSE Linux for external users and developers. Novell thus struck a similar way as with the Red Hat Fedora project. Novell's future Linux versions are then developed using the openSUSE community.

Acquisitions

The SUSE Linux GmbH was a subsidiary of Novell, which was organizationally assigned to the Novell headquarters in the United States and not to the German Novell GmbH. The reason for this is that in SUSE Linux includes, 250 developers were busy as of December 2005 in Nuremberg, who are involved in global product development, which is controlled by the U.S.. The German Novell GmbH, however, is responsible for the sales and marketing of Novell products, including SUSE Linux products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. With the acquisition of Novell by Attachmate in May 2011 SUSE Novell is separated and has been spun off as a separate business unit SUSE again.

Products

For private customers and developers with the SUSE Linux version of the openSUSE project is designed, which can either be downloaded free from the project website or obtained via torrent.

Among the products for business customers include the server Families with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ( SLES short ). This is currently being developed in three versions: the older SLES 9 with a Linux 2.6.5 kernel, SLES 10 Service Pack 4 with a 2.6.16 kernel and the SLES 11 Service Pack 3 with the 3.0 kernel. SLES 12 is to be completed in 2014. All variants are available for multiple processor architectures, including Intel x86, AMD x86 -64, IBM Power, IBM S/390 and zSeries, and Intel Itanium. From the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10 and 11 test versions are available on the Novell Web site.

In the desktop family is the successor to the SUSE Linux Desktop Novell Linux Desktop ( NLD short ). As published in the summer 2006 version 10 server and desktop based on an identical code base, SUSE Linux Enterprise. This is also reflected in the name. Is the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop ( " SLED " ) from the Novell Linux Desktop.

As an application in groupware segment, there was until recently the SUSE Linux Open Exchange Server. Linux solutions offered by the SUSE Framework Solutions.