Rancher Acquisition May Make SUSE a Kubernetes and Hybrid Cloud Powerhouse
After years of struggling to catch up, the German open source software firm buys what might be the ticket to finally turning around.
SUSE's acquisition of the open source Kubernetes startup Rancher Labs closed earlier this month, and the German company that's behind the SUSE Linux distribution might be the hybrid cloud company to watch in 2021.
SUSE is about a year older than Red Hat. At the turn of the century, it was considered the Cadillac of Linux distros, but the company has been playing catch-up for much of this century, struggling under a series of corporate owners who did little to help it prosper.