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class="vector-toc-numb">1.3</span> <span>The Attachmate Group takeover</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Attachmate_Group_takeover-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Micro_Focus_merger" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Micro_Focus_merger"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>Micro Focus merger</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Micro_Focus_merger-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Acquisition_of_OpenAttic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Acquisition_of_OpenAttic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5</span> <span>Acquisition of OpenAttic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Acquisition_of_OpenAttic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Acquisition_of_HPE_OpenStack_and_Stackato" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Acquisition_of_HPE_OpenStack_and_Stackato"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>Acquisition of HPE OpenStack and Stackato</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Acquisition_of_HPE_OpenStack_and_Stackato-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sale_to_EQT_AB" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sale_to_EQT_AB"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>Sale to EQT AB</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sale_to_EQT_AB-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Acquisition_of_Rancher_Labs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Acquisition_of_Rancher_Labs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>Acquisition of Rancher Labs</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Acquisition_of_Rancher_Labs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Initial_public_offering" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Initial_public_offering"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9</span> <span>Initial public offering</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Initial_public_offering-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Acquisition_of_NeuVector" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Acquisition_of_NeuVector"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10</span> <span>Acquisition of NeuVector</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Acquisition_of_NeuVector-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Delisting_from_the_Frankfurt_Stock_Exchange" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Delisting_from_the_Frankfurt_Stock_Exchange"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.11</span> <span>Delisting from the Frankfurt Stock 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Trade_name" title="Trade name">Trade name</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">SUSE S.A.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Privately_held_company" title="Privately held company">Privately held</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_Anonyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Société Anonyme">Société Anonyme</a></i>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/International_Securities_Identification_Number" title="International Securities Identification Number">ISIN</a></th><td class="infobox-data">LU2333210958 <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"><span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14594782?uselang=en#P946" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Computer_software" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer software">Computer software</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/F%C3%BCrth" title="Fürth">Fürth</a>, Germany (2 September 1992<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1992-09-02</span>)</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-suse-history_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-suse-history-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Roland Dyroff</li><li>Thomas Fehr</li><li>Hubert Mantel</li><li>Burchard Steinbild</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_City" title="Luxembourg City">Luxembourg City</a> (corporate)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Nuremberg" title="Nuremberg">Nuremberg</a> (operational)</li></ul></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Area served</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Worldwide</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent">Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen (<a href="/wiki/CEO" class="mw-redirect" title="CEO">CEO</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-CEO_Leeuwen_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEO_Leeuwen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise">SUSE Linux Enterprise</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_Linux_Micro&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SUSE Linux Micro (page does not exist)">SUSE Linux Micro</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_Manager&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SUSE Manager (page does not exist)">SUSE Manager</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/SUSE_Enterprise_Storage" title="SUSE Enterprise Storage">SUSE Enterprise Storage</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_Edge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SUSE Edge (page does not exist)">SUSE Edge</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rancher_Labs" title="Rancher Labs">Rancher Labs</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kubernetes" title="Kubernetes">RKE</a></li><li>Longhorn</li><li>K3S</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Revenue</th><td class="infobox-data">450,000,000 United States dollar (2020) <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"><span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14594782?uselang=en#P2139" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,300<sup id="cite_ref-FY2022_Annual_report_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FY2022_Annual_report-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (2023)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/EQT_AB" title="EQT AB">EQT AB</a> <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"><span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14594782?uselang=en#P749" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.suse.com">www<wbr />.suse<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>SUSE S.A.</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">SOO</span>-sə, <span style="font-size:90%">SOO</span>-zə</i></a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Pronunciation_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pronunciation-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">German:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="de-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German">[ˈzuːzə]</a></span>) is a German multinational <a href="/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source software</a> company that develops and sells <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> products to business customers. Founded in 1992, it was the first company to market Linux for enterprise. It is the developer of <a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise">SUSE Linux Enterprise</a> and the primary sponsor of the community-supported <a href="/wiki/OpenSUSE" title="OpenSUSE">openSUSE</a> Linux distribution project. </p><p>The openSUSE "Tumbleweed" variation is an upstream distribution for both the "Leap" variation and SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution. Meanwhile, its branded "Leap" variation is part of a direct upgrade path to the enterprise version, which effectively makes openSUSE Leap a non-commercial version of its enterprise product. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early">Early</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 2 September 1992 in <a href="/wiki/Nuremberg" title="Nuremberg">Nuremberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, Roland Dyroff, Burchard Steinbild, Hubert Mantel and Thomas Fehr founded the Software and Systems Development Corporation (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Gesellschaft für Software und Systementwicklung mbH</i>). Three of the founders were still mathematics students at a university; Fehr had already graduated and was working as a software engineer. The name S.u.S.E. was an acronym for <i>Software- und System-Entwicklung</i> (Software and Systems Development).<sup id="cite_ref-suse-history_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-suse-history-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name alludes to the inventor of the modern computer, <a href="/wiki/Konrad_Zuse" title="Konrad Zuse">Konrad Zuse</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The original idea was that the company would develop software and function as an advisory <a href="/wiki/UNIX" class="mw-redirect" title="UNIX">UNIX</a> group. According to Mantel, the group decided to distribute Linux, offering support. The first Linux product sold was an extension of the Linux distribution <a href="/wiki/Slackware" title="Slackware">Slackware</a>, which was delivered on 40 floppy disks. The company translated the distribution in cooperation with the Slackware founder <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding" title="Patrick Volkerding">Patrick Volkerding</a> into German. While the core of the distribution remained Slackware, in early 1994, S.u.S.E. released its first own distribution based on the <a href="/wiki/Jurix" title="Jurix">Jurix</a> distribution published by Florian La Roche. </p><p>In 1997, S.u.S.E. opened an office in <a href="/wiki/Oakland" class="mw-redirect" title="Oakland">Oakland</a>, California, and in 1998, moved the corporate office from <a href="/wiki/F%C3%BCrth" title="Fürth">Fürth</a> to <a href="/wiki/N%C3%BCrnberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Nürnberg">Nürnberg</a>. In December 1998, the name was changed from S.u.S.E. to SuSE and restylized to "SUSE" in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-Proffitt2003_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Proffitt2003-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the following years, SUSE opened a total of six national and four international (USA, Czech Republic, Great Britain and Italy) branches. On 25 November 2002, Richard Seibt became CEO. In Hong Kong, SUSE's products are distributed by TriTech Distribution Limited.<sup id="cite_ref-TriTech_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TriTech-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SUSELinuxcon2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/SUSELinuxcon2016.jpg/220px-SUSELinuxcon2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/SUSELinuxcon2016.jpg/330px-SUSELinuxcon2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/SUSELinuxcon2016.jpg/440px-SUSELinuxcon2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4928" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>SUSE at Linuxcon</figcaption></figure> <p>The official <a href="/wiki/Logo" title="Logo">logo</a> and current <a href="/wiki/Mascot" title="Mascot">mascot</a> of the distribution is a <a href="/wiki/Veiled_chameleon" title="Veiled chameleon">veiled chameleon</a> officially named GEEKO (a <a href="/wiki/Portmanteau" class="mw-redirect" title="Portmanteau">portmanteau</a> of "<a href="/wiki/Gecko" title="Gecko">gecko</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Geek" title="Geek">geek</a>"). As with the company's name, the GEEKO logo has evolved to reflect company name changes.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Origins">Origins</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The company started as a service provider, regularly releasing software packages that included <a href="/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System" title="Softlanding Linux System">Softlanding Linux System</a> (SLS, now defunct) and <a href="/wiki/Slackware" title="Slackware">Slackware</a> and printing UNIX and Linux manuals, and offering technical assistance. </p><p>These third-party products SUSE initially used had those characteristics and were managed by SUSE in different fashions: </p> <ul><li>In mid-1992, <a href="/wiki/Peter_MacDonald_(computer_programmer)" title="Peter MacDonald (computer programmer)">Peter MacDonald</a> created the comprehensive Linux distribution known as SLS, which offered elements such as <a href="/wiki/X_Window_System" title="X Window System">X</a> and <a href="/wiki/TCP/IP" class="mw-redirect" title="TCP/IP">TCP/IP</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2007)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This was distributed to people who wanted to get Linux via <a href="/wiki/Floppy_disk" title="Floppy disk">floppy disks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SUSEHistory_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SUSEHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 1993, <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding" title="Patrick Volkerding">Patrick Volkerding</a> cleaned up the SLS Linux distribution, releasing a newer version as Slackware.</li> <li>In 1994, with help from Patrick Volkerding, Slackware scripts were translated into German, which was marked as the first release of S.u.S.E. Linux 1.0 distribution. It was available first on floppies, and then on CDs.<sup id="cite_ref-SUSEHistory_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SUSEHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>To build its own Linux distribution, S.u.S.E. used SLS in 1992 and <a href="/wiki/Jurix" title="Jurix">Jurix</a> in 1996 as starting point.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was created by Florian La Roche, who joined the S.u.S.E. team. He began to develop YaST, the installer and configuration tool that would become the central point of the distribution.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1996, the first distribution under the name S.u.S.E. Linux was published as S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2, a reference to the answer to <a href="/wiki/Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe_and_Everything" class="mw-redirect" title="Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything">"The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything"</a> from the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/YaST" title="YaST">YaST</a>'s first version number, 0.42, was a similar reference. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Expansion">Expansion</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Expansion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SUSE_5.1_FVWM_screenshot.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/SUSE_5.1_FVWM_screenshot.png/220px-SUSE_5.1_FVWM_screenshot.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/SUSE_5.1_FVWM_screenshot.png/330px-SUSE_5.1_FVWM_screenshot.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/SUSE_5.1_FVWM_screenshot.png/440px-SUSE_5.1_FVWM_screenshot.png 2x" data-file-width="801" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/FVWM" title="FVWM">FVWM</a> running on SUSE 5.1</figcaption></figure> <p>Over time, SuSE Linux incorporated many aspects of <a href="/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux" title="Red Hat Linux">Red Hat Linux</a>, such as its <a href="/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager" title="RPM Package Manager">RPM Package Manager</a> and its <a href="/wiki/File_system" title="File system">file structure</a>. </p><p>S.u.S.E. became the largest Linux distributor in Germany. In 1997, SuSE, LLC was established under the direction of president and <a href="/wiki/Managing_partner" class="mw-redirect" title="Managing partner">managing partner</a> James Gray in <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland, California</a>, which enabled the company to develop Linux markets in the Americas and Asia. While Red Hat was ubiquitous in the United States, SuSE Linux continued to grow in Germany as well as in Nordic countries such as Finland and Sweden. In October 1998, the name was changed officially to SuSE (without dots). <a href="/wiki/Linus_Torvalds" title="Linus Torvalds">Linus Torvalds</a>, the creator of the <a href="/wiki/Linux_kernel" title="Linux kernel">Linux kernel</a>, used it fairly often. SuSE entered the UK in 1999. </p><p>In 2000 SuSE released "<a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise"> SuSE Linux Enterprise</a> Server for S/390" becoming the first Enterprise Oriented Linux distribution.<sup id="cite_ref-SLES_for_s/390_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SLES_for_s/390-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2001 SuSE released "<a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise">SUSE Linux Enterprise</a> Server 7" be available for AMD's and Intel's 32-bit architecture (x86), Intel's 64-bit architecture (Itanium processor family), and IBM's mainframe platform S/390 as well as iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries.<sup id="cite_ref-SLES_7_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SLES_7-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novell">Novell</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Novell"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 4 November 2003, <a href="/wiki/Novell" title="Novell">Novell</a> announced it would acquire SuSE Linux AG for $210 million.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-acq-novell-cnet_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acq-novell-cnet-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Novell had been migrating away from the <a href="/wiki/NetWare" title="NetWare">NetWare</a> kernel and used this acquisition as a migration path for its customers.<sup id="cite_ref-acq-novell-pr_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acq-novell-pr-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The acquisition was finalized in January 2004<sup id="cite_ref-Kennedy2003_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kennedy2003-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-novell-acquired-suse_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-novell-acquired-suse-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the name was changed from SuSE Linux AG to a Novell, Inc. subsidiary under the name SuSE Linux GmbH and SUSE Linux Products GmbH. SUSE Linux Products GmbH was entirely responsible for the development of the SUSE Linux distribution and was led by Markus Rex. During the transfer, both the partner and the sales organizations were integrated into Novell. Richard Seibt became CEO of Novell EMEA and left on 9 May 2005. </p><p>In a move to reach its business audience more effectively, SuSE introduced the <a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server" class="mw-redirect" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server</a> in 2001, and a few months before Novell's purchase, changed the company name to "SUSE Linux".<sup id="cite_ref-Proffitt2003_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Proffitt2003-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "SUSE" is now a name, not an acronym. </p><p>According to J. Philips, Novell's corporate technology strategist for the Asia Pacific region, Novell would not "in the medium term" alter the way in which SUSE was developed.<sup id="cite_ref-Ramesh2004_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ramesh2004-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Novell's annual <a href="/wiki/Novell_BrainShare" title="Novell BrainShare">BrainShare</a> conference in 2004, for the first time, all of their computers were run with SUSE Linux and it was announced that the proprietary SUSE administration program <a href="/wiki/YaST2" class="mw-redirect" title="YaST2">YaST2</a> would be released under the <a href="/wiki/GPL" class="mw-redirect" title="GPL">GPL</a> license.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_openSUSE_Project">The openSUSE Project</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The openSUSE Project"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 4 August 2005, Novell announced that the SUSE Professional series would become more open, with the launch of the <a href="/wiki/OpenSUSE_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="OpenSUSE Project">openSUSE Project</a> community. The software always had been open source, but openSUSE opened the development process, allowing developers and users to test and develop it. Previously, all development work had been accomplished in-house by SUSE. Version 10.0 was the first version that offered public beta testing. </p><p>SUSE Linux 10.0 included both open source and proprietary applications and retail boxed-set editions. As part of the change, YaST Online Update server access became free for all SUSE Linux users, and also for the first time, the <a href="/wiki/GNOME" title="GNOME">GNOME</a> desktop was upgraded to equal status with the traditional <a href="/wiki/KDE" title="KDE">KDE</a>. </p><p>In November 2005, SUSE founder Hubert Mantel announced his resignation from the company. He stated that <a href="/wiki/Novell" title="Novell">Novell's</a> acquisition had changed SUSE beyond his expectations and that he did not believe it was the same company that he had founded 13 years earlier. The resignation apparently stemmed from a dispute over the implementation of <a href="/wiki/Ximian" title="Ximian">Ximian</a> products in the <a href="/wiki/GNOME" title="GNOME">GNOME</a>-based default <a href="/wiki/Desktop_environment" title="Desktop environment">desktop environment</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution">Linux distribution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He re-joined only a year later.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Microsoft_agreement">Microsoft agreement</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Microsoft agreement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 3 November 2006 (renewed 25 July 2011), <a href="/wiki/Novell" title="Novell">Novell</a> signed an agreement with <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> covering improvement of SUSE's ability to interoperate with Microsoft Windows, cross-promotion/marketing of both products and patent cross-licensing. The agreement is considered controversial by some in the <a href="/wiki/Free_Software" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Software">Free Software</a> community.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Attachmate_Group_takeover">The Attachmate Group takeover</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Attachmate Group takeover"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 22 November 2010, Novell announced that it had agreed to acquisition by <a href="/wiki/The_Attachmate_Group" title="The Attachmate Group">The Attachmate Group</a> for $2.2 billion. The Attachmate Group planned to operate Novell as two units with SUSE becoming a stand-alone business,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and it anticipated no change to the relationship between the SUSE business and the openSUSE project as a result of this transaction.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The U.S. Department of Justice announced that in order to proceed with the first phase of their acquisition of certain patents and patent applications from Novell Inc., <a href="/wiki/CPTN_Holdings" title="CPTN Holdings">CPTN Holdings</a> LLC and its owners would have to alter their original agreements to address the department's antitrust concerns. The department said that, as originally proposed, the deal would jeopardize the ability of open source software, such as Linux, to continue to innovate and compete in the development and distribution of server, desktop, and mobile operating systems as well as middleware and virtualization products. </p><p>Stipulations regarding the licensing the patents were: </p> <ul><li>All of the Novell patents will be acquired subject to the GNU General Public License, Version 2, a widely adopted open-source license, and the Open Invention Network (OIN) License, a significant license for the Linux System;</li> <li>CPTN does not have the right to limit which of the patents, if any, are available under the OIN license; and</li> <li>Neither CPTN nor its owners will make any statement or take any action with the purpose of influencing or encouraging either Novell or Attachmate to modify which of the patents are available under the OIN license.</li></ul> <p>The acquisition was completed on 27 April 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-novellllc_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-novellllc-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-acq-att_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acq-att-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, on 23 July 2011 The Attachmate Group launched a new website for the SUSE business. Under its new owner, SUSE remained a separate company.<sup id="cite_ref-acq-att-cw_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acq-att-cw-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By June 2012, many former SUSE engineers who had been laid off during Novell's ownership had been brought back.<sup id="cite_ref-itic_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-itic-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Micro_Focus_merger">Micro Focus merger</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Micro Focus merger"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 20 November 2014, the Attachmate Group merged with <a href="/wiki/Micro_Focus" title="Micro Focus">Micro Focus</a> to form the Micro Focus Group, making Micro Focus International SUSE's new parent company. SUSE is operated as a separate business unit with a dedicated product portfolio.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Former president Nils Brauckmann was promoted to <a href="/wiki/CEO" class="mw-redirect" title="CEO">CEO</a> and member of the Micro Focus Group board.<sup id="cite_ref-Investis_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Investis-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acquisition_of_OpenAttic">Acquisition of OpenAttic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Acquisition of OpenAttic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SUSELinuxcon2016-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/SUSELinuxcon2016-2.jpg/220px-SUSELinuxcon2016-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/SUSELinuxcon2016-2.jpg/330px-SUSELinuxcon2016-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/SUSELinuxcon2016-2.jpg/440px-SUSELinuxcon2016-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4080" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>SUSE at <a href="/wiki/Linuxcon" class="mw-redirect" title="Linuxcon">Linuxcon</a> 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>On 9 November 2016, SUSE announced the acquisition of assets relating to the <a href="/w/index.php?title=OpenAttic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OpenAttic (page does not exist)">OpenAttic</a> storage management assets from the German IT firm it-novum.<sup id="cite_ref-acq-openattic_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acq-openattic-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> OpenAttic was integrated into <a href="/wiki/SUSE_Enterprise_Storage" title="SUSE Enterprise Storage">SUSE Enterprise Storage</a> as a graphical tool to manage and monitor <a href="/wiki/Ceph_(software)" title="Ceph (software)">Ceph</a>-based storage clusters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acquisition_of_HPE_OpenStack_and_Stackato">Acquisition of HPE OpenStack and Stackato</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Acquisition of HPE OpenStack and Stackato"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 9 March 2017, SUSE announced the completion of its acquisition of assets relating to the <a href="/wiki/OpenStack" title="OpenStack">OpenStack</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cloud_Foundry" title="Cloud Foundry">Cloud Foundry</a> products from <a href="/wiki/Hewlett_Packard_Enterprise" title="Hewlett Packard Enterprise">Hewlett Packard Enterprise</a> (HPE).<sup id="cite_ref-acq-helion_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acq-helion-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Development teams and code related to those products were to be used to expand SUSE's <a href="/wiki/IaaS" class="mw-redirect" title="IaaS">IaaS</a> and <a href="/wiki/PaaS" class="mw-redirect" title="PaaS">PaaS</a> capabilities. As part of the agreement, HPE was given the option to OEM those products to produce their Helion OpenStack and Stackato products. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sale_to_EQT_AB">Sale to EQT AB</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Sale to EQT AB"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 2 July 2018, it was announced that Micro Focus would sell its SUSE business segment to Blitz 18-679 GmbH, a newly-created subsidiary of <a href="/wiki/EQT_AB" title="EQT AB">EQT AB</a>, for $2.535 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EQT_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EQT-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 15 March 2019, SUSE announced the completion of the acquisition.<sup id="cite_ref-PRNW_2019_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PRNW_2019-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Blitz 18-679 GmbH</i> later adopted the name <i>Marcel BidCo GmbH</i> and is currently an ultimate parent of <i>SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH</i>, which continued operations of <i>SUSE LINUX GmbH</i>, a company dissolved on 28 August 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 22 July 2019, <a href="/wiki/Melissa_Di_Donato" title="Melissa Di Donato">Melissa Di Donato</a>, former <a href="/wiki/SAP_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="SAP (company)">SAP</a> COO, was appointed CEO of SUSE.<sup id="cite_ref-CEO_Donato_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEO_Donato-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acquisition_of_Rancher_Labs">Acquisition of Rancher Labs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Acquisition of Rancher Labs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 8 July 2020, SUSE announced its definitive agreement to acquire <a href="/wiki/Rancher_Labs" title="Rancher Labs">Rancher Labs</a>, which provides a Kubernetes management platform.<sup id="cite_ref-rancher_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rancher-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The acquisition closed on 1 December 2020, at which time Rancher CEO and cofounder Sheng Liang became SUSE's President of Engineering and Innovation.<sup id="cite_ref-rancherclose_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rancherclose-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Initial_public_offering">Initial public offering</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Initial public offering"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early in 2021 sources indicated that SUSE was preparing for an <a href="/wiki/IPO" class="mw-redirect" title="IPO">IPO</a> before summer with a projected value of 7-8 billion euros.<sup id="cite_ref-IPO_prep_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IPO_prep-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An official ITF (Intent to Float) statement was then released on April 26, 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-IPO_ITF_1_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IPO_ITF_1-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IPO_ITF_2_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IPO_ITF_2-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IPO_ITF_3_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IPO_ITF_3-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IPO_ITF_4_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IPO_ITF_4-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On May 19, 2021, SUSE went public at <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_Stock_Exchange" title="Frankfurt Stock Exchange">Frankfurt Stock Exchange</a> at an original issue price of 30 euros, with EQT AB retaining 75.7 percent.<sup id="cite_ref-IPO_1_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IPO_1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The headquarters of the newly formed SUSE S.A. was set to Luxembourg.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nürnberg remained the largest software development office though. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acquisition_of_NeuVector">Acquisition of NeuVector</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Acquisition of NeuVector"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 28 October 2021, SUSE announced that it had acquired NeuVector, Inc., a provider of full lifecycle container security, for $130 million in cash and stock.<sup id="cite_ref-neuvector_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-neuvector-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Delisting_from_the_Frankfurt_Stock_Exchange">Delisting from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Delisting from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 21 March 2023, SUSE appoints Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen as new CEO<sup id="cite_ref-Dir-Peter_new_SUSE_CEO_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dir-Peter_new_SUSE_CEO-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 17 August 2023, EQT Private Equity announces intention to delist SUSE and merge into an unlisted Luxembourg entity.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The press release mentions that "SUSE’s Management Board and Supervisory Board support the strategic opportunity from delisting of the company as it will allow SUSE to focus fully on its operational priorities and execution of its long-term strategy". </p><p>On 13 November 2023, SUSE S.A. announced that the merger was completed. The company previously known as SUSE S.A. was merged with Marcel New Lux IV S.A., a Luxembourg Public Limited Liability Corporation. The new company changed its name to SUSE S.A. and the old company's shares were delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Products">Products</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Products"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise">SUSE Linux Enterprise</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SUSE_Geeko_plush_toy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/SUSE_Geeko_plush_toy.jpg/220px-SUSE_Geeko_plush_toy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/SUSE_Geeko_plush_toy.jpg/330px-SUSE_Geeko_plush_toy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/SUSE_Geeko_plush_toy.jpg/440px-SUSE_Geeko_plush_toy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>SUSE GEEKO official plush toy</figcaption></figure> <p>The initial public release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was version 7 published on August 24th 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starting with the launch of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform in July 2006, the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform was the basis for both the server and desktop, with an almost identical code base. As of 2024<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 is the latest available version.<sup id="cite_ref-suse-download_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-suse-download-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Linux">Linux</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Linux"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The primary Linux distribution from SUSE is <a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server" class="mw-redirect" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server</a> ("SLES") targeted to large organizations for physical, virtual and cloud workloads. This offering is part of the SUSE Linux Enterprise family of products. All versions are available for multiple processor architectures, including Intel x86, <a href="/wiki/ARM_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="ARM architecture">ARM</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-sles-for-arm_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-for-arm-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> AMD x86-64, <a href="/wiki/IBM_Power_microprocessors" title="IBM Power microprocessors">IBM Power</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-sles-for-power_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-for-power-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/IBM_System_z" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM System z">IBM S/390 and z Systems</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-sles-for-z_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-for-z-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. SLES is available in both on-demand and bring-your-own-subscription ("BYOS") images on <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud" title="Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud">Amazon EC2</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-sles-for-amazon-ec2_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-for-amazon-ec2-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Azure" title="Microsoft Azure">Microsoft Azure</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-sles-for-azure_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-for-azure-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Google_Compute_Engine" title="Google Compute Engine">Google Compute Engine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sles-for-google_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-for-google-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Server_offerings_from_the_SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_family_of_products">Server offerings from the SUSE Linux Enterprise family of products</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Server offerings from the SUSE Linux Enterprise family of products"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications,<sup id="cite_ref-sles-for-sap_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-for-sap-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a Linux operating system optimized for SAP workloads</li> <li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service,<sup id="cite_ref-slepos_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-slepos-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a Linux operating system for the retail industry that includes a version of Linux tailored for user touch points and in-store servers</li> <li>SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing,<sup id="cite_ref-sles-hpc_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-hpc-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an infrastructure solution<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Use_plain_English#Buzzwords" title="Wikipedia:Use plain English"><span title="The material near this tag may use buzzwords designed solely to impress you or obscure meaning. (September 2019)">buzzword</span></a></i>]</sup> for <a href="/wiki/High-performance_computing" title="High-performance computing">high performance computing</a></li> <li>SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension,<sup id="cite_ref-sles-hae_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-hae-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an integrated suite of open source <a href="/wiki/High-availability_cluster" title="High-availability cluster">HA clustering</a> and storage replication<sup id="cite_ref-drbd_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drbd-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> technologies</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Special_editions_of_the_Server_product">Special editions of the Server product</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Special editions of the Server product"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server" class="mw-redirect" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server</a> has several optimized editions created in the context of the respective partnerships. These editions are derived from the base Server product: </p> <ul><li>SLES for <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud" title="Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud">Amazon EC2</a><sup id="cite_ref-sles-for-amazon-ec2_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-for-amazon-ec2-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>SLES for <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Azure" title="Microsoft Azure">Microsoft Azure</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-sles-for-azure_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-for-azure-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which includes a specially tuned kernel<sup id="cite_ref-azure-kernel_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azure-kernel-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>SLES for ARM <a href="/wiki/Raspberry_Pi" title="Raspberry Pi">Raspberry Pi</a> support,<sup id="cite_ref-raspberry-pi_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-raspberry-pi-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a specially packaged version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for ARM, tailored for <a href="/wiki/Raspberry_Pi" title="Raspberry Pi">Raspberry Pi</a> 3 Model B</li> <li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time,<sup id="cite_ref-realtime_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-realtime-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a special version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server that turns the general-purpose operating system into a <a href="/wiki/Real-time_operating_system" title="Real-time operating system">real-time operating system</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Desktop_offerings_from_the_SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_family_of_products">Desktop offerings from the SUSE Linux Enterprise family of products</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Desktop offerings from the SUSE Linux Enterprise family of products"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Desktop" class="mw-redirect" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-desktop_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-desktop-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the successor to Novell Linux Desktop</li> <li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension,<sup id="cite_ref-sle-we_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sle-we-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an add-on extension that adds desktop features to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server</li> <li><a href="/wiki/LibreOffice" title="LibreOffice">LibreOffice</a> office productivity suite<sup id="cite_ref-libreoffice_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-libreoffice-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is also distributed by SUSE</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Deprecated_versions">Deprecated versions</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Deprecated versions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>SLES for VMware<sup id="cite_ref-sles-for-vmware_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sles-for-vmware-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (entitlement was included in VMware vSphere; product end-of-availability announced on June 25th 2014<sup id="cite_ref-SLES_for_VMware_End_of_Availability_Announcement_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SLES_for_VMware_End_of_Availability_Announcement-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Software-defined_infrastructure">Software-defined infrastructure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Software-defined infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>SUSE OpenStack Cloud,<sup id="cite_ref-openstack_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-openstack-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an automated cloud computing platform based on <a href="/wiki/OpenStack" title="OpenStack">OpenStack</a> for deploying and managing IaaS private clouds. SUSE announced that they would discontinue sales as of October 2019<sup id="cite_ref-SUSE_OpenStack_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SUSE_OpenStack-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>SUSE Enterprise Storage,<sup id="cite_ref-storage_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-storage-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/Software-defined_storage" title="Software-defined storage">software-defined storage</a> tool based on <a href="/wiki/Ceph_(software)" title="Ceph (software)">Ceph</a> enabling the use of commodity servers and disk drives for cost-effective, resilient, and scalable storage. SUSE announced they would discontinue sales as of March 2021</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Management">Management</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Management"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>SUSE Manager,<sup id="cite_ref-manager_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-manager-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a comprehensive Linux server management tool based on Uyuni<sup id="cite_ref-uyuni_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-uyuni-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (a <a href="/wiki/Fork_(software_development)" title="Fork (software development)">fork</a> of <a href="/wiki/Spacewalk_(software)" title="Spacewalk (software)">Spacewalk</a>, based on <a href="/wiki/Salt_(software)" title="Salt (software)">SaltStack</a>) for package and <a href="/wiki/Patch_(computing)" title="Patch (computing)">patch</a> management, system provisioning and monitoring</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Application_delivery">Application delivery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Application delivery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>SUSE CaaS Platform ("Container as a Service"),<sup id="cite_ref-caasp_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-caasp-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an application development and hosting platform for container-based applications and services based on <a href="/wiki/Kubernetes" title="Kubernetes">Kubernetes</a></li> <li>SUSE Cloud Application Platform,<sup id="cite_ref-cap_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cap-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a PaaS environment based on <a href="/wiki/Cloud_Foundry" title="Cloud Foundry">Cloud Foundry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kubernetes" title="Kubernetes">Kubernetes</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SUSE_Studio">SUSE Studio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: SUSE Studio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/SUSE_Studio" title="SUSE Studio">SUSE Studio</a></div> <p>SUSE Studio product was a web interface (built using <a href="/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails" title="Ruby on Rails">Ruby on Rails</a>) to <a href="/wiki/OpenSUSE_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="OpenSUSE Project">openSUSE's</a> <a href="/wiki/KIWI_(openSUSE)" title="KIWI (openSUSE)">KIWI</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Open_Build_Service" title="Open Build Service">Open Build Service</a> tools. It allowed users to put together a custom <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> distribution graphically and to generate output including a large variety of Virtual Machine and Disk Images. SUSE Studio merged with <a href="/wiki/Open_Build_Service" title="Open Build Service">Open Build Service</a> and the resulting project was renamed to <a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_Studio_Express&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SUSE Studio Express (page does not exist)">SUSE Studio Express</a> in September 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Projects">Projects</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Projects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/OpenSUSE" title="OpenSUSE">openSUSE</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="openSUSE">openSUSE</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: openSUSE"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/OpenSUSE" title="OpenSUSE">openSUSE</a> is driven by the <a href="/wiki/OpenSUSE_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="OpenSUSE Project">openSUSE Project</a> community and sponsored by SUSE, to develop and maintain SUSE Linux components. It was the equivalent of the historic "SuSE Linux Professional". After their acquisition of SUSE Linux, <a href="/wiki/Novell" title="Novell">Novell</a> (now SUSE) decided to make the community central to their development process.<sup id="cite_ref-Interview_describing_openSUSE_and_SUSE_relationship2_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Interview_describing_openSUSE_and_SUSE_relationship2-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-openSUSE_development_model2_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-openSUSE_development_model2-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Uyuni">Uyuni</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Uyuni"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Uyuni,<sup id="cite_ref-uyuni_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-uyuni-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a comprehensive, and integrated, Linux server management tools<sup id="cite_ref-uyuni_79-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-uyuni-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Fork_(software_development)" title="Fork (software development)">forked</a> from <a href="/wiki/Spacewalk_(software)" title="Spacewalk (software)">Spacewalk</a> project, based on <a href="/wiki/Salt_(software)" title="Salt (software)">SaltStack</a>) for package and <a href="/wiki/Patch_(computing)" title="Patch (computing)">patch</a> management, security aditing, system provisioning and monitoring-</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Linux_on_IBM_Z" title="Linux on IBM Z">Linux on IBM Z</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions" title="List of Linux distributions">List of Linux distributions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions" title="Comparison of Linux distributions">Comparison of Linux distributions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SUSE_Studio" title="SUSE Studio">SUSE Studio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novell_UnixWare" class="mw-redirect" title="Novell UnixWare">Novell UnixWare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novell_Corsair" class="mw-redirect" title="Novell Corsair">Novell Corsair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novell_Expos%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Novell Exposé">Novell Exposé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caldera_OpenLinux" title="Caldera OpenLinux">Caldera OpenLinux and Caldera Network Desktop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_computing_mascots" title="List of computing mascots">List of computing mascots</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SUSE_S.A.&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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