SUSE completes its management transition

Posted Mar 17, 2019 20:00 UTC (Sun) by darwish (guest, #102479)
In reply to: SUSE completes its management transition by Cyberax
Parent article: SUSE completes its management transition

Of course, I won't recommend "Amazon Linux" to anyone; I'm just talking about _facts on the ground_ here:

https://thecloudmarket.com/stats

SUSE's marketshare on the cloud is almost Nil. So my original question still holds: how will SUSE make money in a cloud-native world? This is IMHO a make-or-break question.

SUSE completes its management transition

Posted Mar 19, 2019 17:38 UTC (Tue) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (1 responses)

I guess one question is how they make their money now. Maybe there's a rich vein of consulting across both cloud and datacenter?

I mean, I really don't know, but I expect most of their income hasn't been via SuSE Linux Enterprise for some time, because it isn't a growing market. The datacenter was pretty saturated with Linux a decade ago.

I do think that in around 10 years, datacenter spending will have rebounded a bit, but I expect its management will look more like the cloud than its current reality.

SUSE completes its management transition

Posted Mar 21, 2019 9:36 UTC (Thu) by vmoutoussamy (subscriber, #86142) [Link]

The cloud is hype today, but a lot of money maker system are not there yet (IMHO they will remain in datacenter...) It's the same for any vendor (even Microsoft), you can sell a lot of tiny subscription/contract in the cloud and/or sell big subscription/contract for mission critical systems.

SUSE completes its management transition

Posted Mar 21, 2019 11:10 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

Those stats seem to talk about the number of published images... not the number of images in use. A lot of those images are going to be rolling snapshots and things like that. So SuSE could have 10x the number of Ubuntu instances based off of 1 image.