I joined years ago, it used to be a good place but it's unique culture is being destroyed by new management. As I start looking for a new job, I'm asking myself if SUSE is well known and how it can be read in my resume that I spent so many years here. #crisistextline
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Big name in Europe, the German gov uses them for their Linux needs. They had a lot of patents initially on hypervisors, networks and they owned novel (netware). That's why at a point in time Microsoft chewed them up, spat them out and came with hyperv. They sponsor a number of projects that I personally fancy, such as nextcloud and btrfs. If you have commits, I suggest to carve out a section of your resume focusing on the open source side you worked on through the company and say you're fond of said project.
SUSE was never owned by Microsoft, and Novell owned SUSE, not the other way around. SUSE was independent from 1992 to 2002, then bought by Novell. During the period they were owned by Novell, they did a cross-licensing deal with Microsoft, and did some of the work of Linux support on HyperV. (My team at XenSource/Citrix did some of it too.) The whole thing was subsequently acquired by Attachmate, which was in turn acquired by Micro Focus. Through all of this SUSE was largely operated as an independent division, since none of the acquirers really understood open source. Last year, SUSE was spun out and acquired by EQT, a European growth equity firm. The management team that was put in place was culturally very different, having come mostly from SAP and Salesforce. The decision process and center of gravity moved very quickly from engineering- and community-driven to sales-driven.
K8sguy, how do you think this Rancher acquisition will play out? Do you think the sales driven culture will wreck Rancher’s engineering model?
Only heard of suse Linux, but no idea what the company does