Over the past two decades SUSE Linux has been passed around several times. From Novell’s acquisition of SUSE back in 2003 to then being acquired by The Attachmate Group to then merging with Micro Focus and then the SUSE business being acquired by private equity firm EQT back in 2018. A report out today indicates that EQT may now be looking to sell off SUSE.
A Reuters report out today notes that private equity firm EQT is exploring a sale of SUSE for as much as $6 billion USD. EQT has reportedly hired an investment bank to explore a possible sale of SUSE.
The Reuters report for those interested can be read here. Beyond that not many details public at this time but we’ll see if SUSE changes hands yet again. It will be interesting to see who the next suitor(s) are for SUSE and the resulting impact on openSUSE and their broader open-source software efforts.
