September 2nd 1992

1994SUSE Ships itsFirst German LinuxDistribution

1997SUSE EntersU.S. Market

1999/2000WorldwideExpansion

2000SUSE IntroducesFirst Global EnterpriseLinux Server OS

Foundation of SuccessEstablished; SUSE Kicks offTechnology Partnershipswith IBM, SAP and Oracle

2004SUSE Acquired by Novell

2006

2005openSUSE Community ProjectAnnounced

MicrosoftInteroperabilityAgreement

2009SUSE StudioLaunched

2010SUSE ExpandsPartnership with VMware

Novell Acquiredby Attachmate;SUSE Becomes itsOwn Business

2012SUSE Announces SUSECon

2012 and Beyond

SUSE is the most widely-used commercial Linux distribution in China More than 70% of all SAP

running on Linux runs onSUSE Linux Enterprise Server

More than 80%of all mainframeLinux is SUSE LinuxEnterprise Server

The Future

Over 30,000 usershave built160,000 packagesfor 22 base distributionson 6 architecturesusing the Open Build Service

Nearly 200,000 usershave built1 million imageswith SUSE Studio

20 Years of

1996The Releaseof SUSE Linux 4.2 -its First Self-DevelopedVersion

The original provider of theenterprise Linux distributionand most interoperable platformfor mission-critical computing,SUSE today powers thousandsof organizations around the worldacross physical, virtual andcloud environments.

The Birthday of

1999

SUSE

SUSE 2011

SUSE Manager Launches

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