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SUSE completes its management transition

smoogen — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:10:49 +0000

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.

SUSE completes its management transition

vmoutoussamy — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:36:00 +0000

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

rbranco — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:24:48 +0000

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the OS of choice for SAP applications, in bare-metal and in the cloud.

SUSE completes its management transition

k8to — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:38:17 +0000

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

mathstuf — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:45:57 +0000

I don't know about that. Nokia got sold around a couple of times. Granted, it doesn't seem like the buyers are parasitizing the profitable parts and regurgitating the remnants onto the next sucker, but I wouldn't use it as a universal indicator of success.

SUSE completes its management transition

em-bee — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 07:38:24 +0000

suse has survived several sales of the company or parent companies. that is usually a sign of a good and stable revenue. i expect they will survive quite a while longer...

greetings, eMBee.

SUSE completes its management transition

darwish — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:00:29 +0000

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

Cyberax — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 19:46:01 +0000

Ubuntu is quite popular on various cloud providers. And Amazon Linux might not work best if you want a cross-provider application (like AWS+Azure+GCE).

SUSE completes its management transition

darwish — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:39:14 +0000

SUSE's future is worrisome (I guess, but I hope not): how will they make money when every one is moving to the cloud? "Amazon Linux" and other cloud-provider-native distributions are much more common...

SUSE completes its management transition

alison — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 05:38:57 +0000

I was impressed by the quality of the talks in the OpenSUSE track at Southern California Linux Expo last weekend.

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/schedule/friday

I've never used OpenSUSE beyond Open Build System, but the quality of technical contribution there obviously remains high.