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El Reg reports
Attachmate, the software shop that headhunted Novell and SUSE Linux, is itself being bought out by Micro Focus International.
The mainframe and COBOL specialist is acquiring Attachmate Group from its parent company Wizard in a deal calculated at $2.3bn before costs.
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Attachmate gives MicroFocus access to SUSE and Novell, business units bought by the company in 2010 for $2.2bn. Novell owned SUSE Linux, which it had bought in 2003 for $210m. Under Attachmate, the two were broken apart.
putting 882 patents in its Linux portfolio up for sale to a consortium backed by Microsoft.
SUSE is chief steward of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server while Novell has been re-shaped to sell end-point management and collaboration software.
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(Score: 2) by ticho on Wednesday September 17 2014, @02:50PM
Are you really judging real use by something as miniscule as web servers usage? There is more than web to computing. Suse is being deployed by the hundreds around Europe to run SAP with many terabytes large databases. SAP even has some sort of "alliance" with Suse, where they prefer them over Red Hat. All the new SAP HANA solutions run on Suse. I know, I have to support and deploy these systems, even though I would prefer Red Hat.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday September 17 2014, @03:24PM
"Are you really judging real use by something as miniscule as web servers usage?"
Yes, and making a boolean judgement based on the ratios being utterly ridiculous like being over 50 times smaller than each of the major competitors.
I agree with you completely in that the error bars are way too high to make a useful judgment of close competitors like Ubuntu vs Debian.
Based on one sig fig engineering data I wouldn't make predictions about the ranking of size of very similar compact cars, at least without a better yardstick. But the ratios here are comparing the tiniest smartcar to the largest open pit mining dump truck ever made. Actually that ratio isn't big enough. Its like comparing a barbie doll to the statue of liberty. No matter how far off your yardstick calibration, one is obviously really big and the other is obviously really small.
I don't think SAP really matters outside the very largest megacorps. Everyone other than multinational megacorps run when they hear it. Google searches give really weird results like there's only 101000 total installed SAP servers (probably many at the same site) yet 254000 "customers".
SAP is very strange in that nobody likes it but every big company sends them absolutely enormous sums of money. Its very expensive and hard to use and lowers productivity quite a bit, but its very popular. Generally companies in deep decline flock to it as a silver bullet which doesn't help with the rep.
Its a strange, but fundamentally irrelevant software company. I wouldn't read very much into it.
Its kind of the Lotus Notes of the 2010s.
I'm sure a tiny little smart car is very personally important to the person who owns/admins it, etc etc, yes yes very important that the owner commutes to work, at least to that one owner. Just don't pretend its the same size as a 150 ton open pit mining dump truck.
(Score: 1) by ticho on Thursday September 18 2014, @01:48PM
"Generally companies in deep decline flock to it as a silver bullet which doesn't help with the rep."
Well, I can tell you that SAP is being used internally by many more medium to big companies than you would think, very few of them being "in decline".