In a continuation of recent changes to open source businesses, SUSE has decided to go back to being a private company.
SUSE’s foray as a public company was certainly not profitable for investors who bought in at the IPO (thankfully, not me) but represents a good deal for current shareholders.
My experience with SUSE has been very positive. I used it to deploy some SAP HANA databases about ten years ago and it was a very nice distro with some interesting configuration and management tools.
It’ll be really interesting to see how open source business models evolve going forward. It’s becoming clear that there are challenges emerging now that interest rates are up.