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Recent examples of Broadcom acquiring VMware , or end of support for CentOS , show how dependent companies can become on vendors ’ changing policies , and this has led to huge concerns amongst customers regarding increased pricing when there is no choice .
Open code versus closed source – Do you think open-source solutions are better equipped to foster innovation and enable business success ? industry-hardened solutions that stand for innovation , collaboration and accessibility to the technology that organisations rely on .
Many customers have complex IT environments and make big investments in proprietary and legacy solutions . How can an opensource vendor like SUSE add value for customers , especially in complex mixed environments ?
The discussion of closed and open continues throughout software history . There are several proof points why open-source is the better choice for innovation and business success . The open-source model is driving innovation at a fast pace with a huge ecosystem of companies and individual developers – earlier this year , GitHub announced that it now has more than 100 million registered developer accounts on the platform . Today , organisations need to leverage digital assets , information and a surge of new infrastructure software innovation to enable their Digital Transformation .
These emerging infrastructure technologies are built on open-source and Linux , and they create new levels of freedom and flexibility for customers . As organisations embrace open-source innovation , they demand that these solutions are reliable , secure and enterpriseready . That ’ s exactly what SUSE is doing : providing
Our SUSE solutions stand for innovation and enabling choice through our products . Customers require more openness and more flexibility to combine existing and new capabilities from different vendors that do not focus on bundled offerings with services they might not want or need . The end of support for CentOS is a good example of how we help customers safeguard their IT investments . With SUSE Liberty Linux , we offer customers an easy way to continue with their Enterprise Linux versions from different vendors , without the need for migration , with a single way of management .
Customers such as Deutsche Bank , LOT Polish Airlines and Tyro Payments are using SUSE Liberty Linux to reduce complexity and to future-proof their investments . In addition , with the formation of OpenELA , an industry organisation SUSE created with CIQ and Oracle , we encourage further development and access to free Enterprise Linux source code .
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