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German open source vendor SUSE has said it will invest more than US$10 million (A$14.97 million) to fork the publicly available source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and make it available to world+dog with no restrictions.

A survey of 501 C-suite to IT professionals in the US, UK and Germany, to gauge industry trends, has found that 88% experienced at least one cloud security incident in the last 12 months.

German open-source vendor SUSE has released enhancements to its enterprise Linux distribution, with the focus being on security.

Germany-based open source company SUSE says it has recorded revenue slightly over US$400 million during its last fiscal year, a rise of about 15% year-on-year, part as an independent company and part as a public entity under the banner of British mainframe vendor Micro Focus.

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.

Software-defined networking has come into vogue because of the growth of the cloud and is one of the waves of the future, according to Olaf Kirch, vice-president of R&D at SUSE Linux.

When it comes to numbers, SUSE Linux is a long, long way behind Red Hat, the 800-lb gorilla of commercial Linux companies.

Managing an open source community project is an art – especially when one is a for-profit company. As the examples of Oracle and the former Sun Microsystems have shown, it is not an easy proposition.

Going private and re-establishing itself as a separate business unit appears to have done SUSE, the Linux company, a world of good if one goes by the comments of Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager.