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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by necovek on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:24PM (#23771408)
I was actually a bit behind on the current SUSE ownership: last I remember was it getting acquired by Novell and entering into an agreement with Microsoft. I was thus confused by your comment.

For those like me, SUSE was sold off again in 2018 after like 5 acquisitions, and has been an "independent business unit" for a while now.

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by aplanas on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:32PM (#23771485)
TL;DR: https://www.eqtgroup.com/Investments/Current-Portfolio/suse/

But we are mostly independent now. I.e we choose the directions.

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by BossingAround on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:41PM (#23771583)
> mostly independent

Sounds like something Red Hat could say too...

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by johannes1234321 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:54PM (#23771734)
With RH/IBM IBM certainly wants to leverage the RH brand and separate it a bit from the IBM brand, while leveraging customers and technologies across the company.

Suse's current owner won't have much synergies between Suse and their real estate business (except that Suse probably rents office space there) You don't do deals like "rent an apartment, get a Suse license for free" Thus Suse, under obersight can likely set their business strategy and objectives more freely.

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by yellowapple on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:28PM (#23774899)
> You don't do deals like "rent an apartment, get a Suse license for free"

Well maybe they should? That'd certainly sweeten the deal for me.

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by Vogtinator on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:52PM (#23771703)
SUSE's owner (EQT) is not doing anything in the IT sector themselves, unlike RedHat's owner (IBM).
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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by darren0 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:03PM (#23776291)
SUSE is owned by EQT which is an investment organization. They basically provide the capital and resources to grow a business and then get out when it reaches a target. This is very different from IBM/Red Hat.
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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by MangoCoffee on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:50PM (#23773562)
interesting...why a real estate group invest in software company?
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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by smabie on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:56PM (#23773610)
It's a private equity company.
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