| Who's The Fastest Growing Linux Distro? |
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Since Novell acquired Germany's SuSe LINUX for $210 million Red Hat now has a major competitor looking for more growth in the U.S. marketplace, helped in part by IBM's $50 million investment in Novell as part of the SuSe deal.
"We see more and more enterprises interested in SuSe Linux as we have now together with Novell a better global coverage and better support offering," said SuSe spokesman Holger Dyroff. "We are a much more stable company and that's what enterprises are looking for in Linux."
He also said he expects the next version of SuSe Linux Enterprise server, based on the 2.6.x kernel, will accelerate growth in the second half of the year. That release is currently scheduled for July 2004.
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