German open source vendor SUSE has announced that its majority shareholder Marcel intends to take the company private by delisting it from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange through a merger into an unlisted Luxembourg entity.
Germany open source provider SUSE will go in for an initial public offering next year, the American news service Bloomberg reports, adding that its owner, Swedish private equity firm EQT, is already consulting advisers about the listing.
Open source company SUSE says the acquisition of Red Hat, once the biggest independent open source firm, by IBM shows the importance of the role that open source technology and standards will play in the future.
Open source firm SUSE has completed the process of acquisition by its fourth owner — Swedish growth investor EQT — and says it would now be the largest independent open source company, a status that Red Hat once enjoyed until it was bought by IBM.
Germany-based SUSE Linux has gone through its fourth sale in the last 15 years, with the new owner, Swedish growth investor EQT, having acquired the company from current owner, Britain's Micro Focus, for US$2.535 billion, with the UK firm using the proceeds to repay part of its existing debt.
The Germany-based SUSE Linux marked a milestone over the last few days: on Friday, 2 September, the company turned 25, a remarkable achievement in an industry where the remains of software companies litter the landscape around the world.
Enterprise cloud company ServiceNow has appointed Hamish Miles to a newly created position of New Zealand country manager.
The head of kernel development at SUSE Linux, Vojtěch Pavlík, says it is remarkable that the company has managed to grow its numbers as much as it has and still retain the same spirit that many start-ups have, where anyone can influence the direction it takes.
The German Linux company, SUSE, plans to increase staff numbers by up to 150 personnel in the next six months, SUSE global marketing and alliances chief Michael Miller said today.
An update to Attachmate's Luminet enterprise fraud management software delivers continuous monitoring of enterprise applications, among other new features.
Attachmate has appointed Larry De Cata as its new sales director.
Attachmate has appointed Ian Graystone as channel sales director for its Novell and NetIQ operations in Australia.
The Attachmate Group has appointed Martin Mooney as country manager for New Zealand.
Under its new owner, Attachmate, Novell has begun sacking staff, with reports saying that 700 to 800 are being given pink slips.
Novell ceased to exist as a public entity at the end of trading in the US on Wednesday as the sale of the company to Attachmate Corporation was closed.
The US Department of Justice has announced that Microsoft will not be able to keep patents it planned to buy from Novell as part of a consortium.
Attachmate claims its Reflection 2011 terminal emulation software will be the first of its kind to provide native support for Microsoft App-V.
NetIQ Corporation today announced the extension of NetIQ Aegis to VMware environments. By extending IT process automation and delivering integrated virtual-physical management and control, NetIQ Aegis helps organisations mitigate the risks of operational cost overruns, while enforcing consistency between virtual and physical management processes.
NetIQ, an Attachmate business, today announced that Ron Milton has joined NetIQ as vice president of customer value realisation. Milton will lead the global delivery of NetIQ's professional services, technical support, product line sales engineering, education and training programs and NetIQ's online communities, helping to align these elements of solution delivery that make NetIQ customers successful.