SUSE may be for sale, again [LWN.net]

Reuters is reporting that private-equity firm EQT may be looking to sell SUSE:

EQT has hired investment bank Arma Partners to sound out a group of private equity investors for a possible sale of the company, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential matters. The deliberations are at an early stage and there is no certainty that EQT will proceed with a transaction, the sources said.

SUSE has traded hands a number of times over the years. Most recently it was acquired by EQT in 2018, was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2021, and then taken private again by EQT in August 2023.

Not too shabby

Posted Mar 11, 2026 17:38 UTC (Wed) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

> private in 2023, valuing it at 2.72 billion euros ($2.96 billion). A sale at around $6 billion would roughly double that valuation in about two and a half years.

Doubling your money in 2-3 years is a nice trick if you are talking about billions of dollars.

I can see SUSE doing well given the current trend towards European sovereignty and concerns about reliance on US-based technology companies (like Red Hat). In fact, this is not just a European trend.

SUSE may be for sale, again

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Not too shabby