Nils Brauckmann:suse towards cloud computing will support arm

In the 20 career, SUSE Linux has come a long way, experienced too much, honor and perseverance, today's SUSE Linux become a banner on the Linux market. SUSE president and general manager Nils Brauckmann said, "In the future, we will stride forward to cloud computing, and continue to remain in the open source area of investment, and will play a more important role in China and Asia market." ”

Recently, SUSE president and general manager Nils Brauckmann to visit China. In an interview with CNET Technology Information Network, Nils Brauckmann said, "The visit has many purposes, including more contacts and exchanges with the Chinese team, visiting Chinese users and Chinese partners." ”

Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager of SuSE, interviewed by CNET Science and technology Information network

The legend of the Linux industry

20 is long and short for SuSE and SuSE Linux. It was born in Germany 20 years ago and is one of the most well-known Linux brands in the industry, SuSE.

May 26, 2011, Nils Brauckmann was appointed SuSE president and general manager, responsible for leading the industry's first Linux operating system development and distribution work, including SuSE Linux solutions in the global development, sales, marketing, technical support, Pre-sales consulting and consulting services.

Nils Brauckmann has over more than 20 years of experience in IT industry and has held senior positions in international management and multiple positions. He joined the WRQ Company in 1994 (acquired by Attachmate in 2004) and has held various management responsibilities in Europe, the Middle East, and the African region (EMEA) across sales, marketing and support departments. At the beginning of his technical work, he worked at Novell and Siemens Nixdorf and other companies. Brauckmann has a wealth of leadership experience in the assessment survey and integration related to mergers and acquisitions.

Nils Brauckmann was passionate about SUSE Linux, noting that, in 1992, SuSE was born and grew with Linux, and SuSE and SUSE Linux continued to develop, optimize, and continue to invest in the open source community for 20 of years, Today, SuSE has made a great success, with 750 employees worldwide, earning more than 200 million dollars a year and gaining leadership in the market.

Nils Brauckmann pointed out that in the Novell greater China and South Korea general manager Zhang Xianmin, led by the SUSE in China has made very good results, now, SUSE Linux in China's market share of more than 35%, according to IDC data shows that SUSE Linux grew more than 25% in China over the years.

The one who's left is the winner.

Nils Brauckmann reviewed the history of SUSE Linux for more than 20 years, he said, "SUSE from the original 100 Linux vendors, outstanding, after the tide of Sand, SUSE Linux became one of the two major Linux." We are a winner. ”

Nils Brauckmann that some milestones were hard to forget in the SuSE business development of the company in the 20. In the history of SuSE Development, one of its characteristics is the strong industry cooperative relationship which still flourishes. In 1999, the company worked with IBM to create a number of visionary projects, most notably the collaboration between the two sides to import Linux code into large hosts. A year later, SuSE became the only company to offer IBM's mainframe Linux operating systems with enterprise-ready and business-support features. Around the same time, SUSE with SAP's Linuxlab to become the first Linux provider to be designated as the SAP Global Technology partner.

Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager of SuSE, interviewed by CNET Science and technology Information network

SuSE established a landmark business and technical cooperation agreement with Microsoft in 2006, and a joint research institute was set up to improve the interoperability between Linux and Microsoft Windows. Now, in managing a mix of IT environments, this collaboration continues to help customers maximize utilization and reduce costs. SuSE will also continue to maintain active partnerships with other leading global technology companies such as AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, Oracle and VMware to help customers address today's incredibly complex it challenges.

In terms of products, SUSE has also forged several milestones. 1994, SUSE launched its first Linux distribution--S.U.S.E Linux 1.0. Its next significant product was the S.U.S.E Linux 4.2, which was later released in 1996, the first to be developed entirely by suse rather than translated. In 2000, SUSE launched the SUSE Linux Enterprise server, which is an operating system for corporate users and the first Linux server operating system globally distributed and fully supported for enterprise production environments.

Other noteworthy product launches include SuSE Studio, an award-winning software device and application image creation tool that was released in 2009. SUSE Manager is the company's comprehensive Linux Server Management solution, released in 2011. And just recently, suse a new cloud infrastructure solution to support OpenStack.

In addition, SUSE has long been providing services and support to many open source community projects and collaborations in the community. One of the biggest and most influential was the openSUSE project, which was established in 2005. SuSE's commercially supported Linux software has always been developed and distributed under open source models and licenses, and openSUSE has further opened up the development process, allowing programmers and users to test and contribute to the development of community and Commercial editions.

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