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SUSE Names Melissa Di Donato New CEO (zdnet.com) 87

Posted by BeauHD from the change-in-power dept.
Melissa Di Donato, SAP's former COO, has been named SUSE's new CEO. ZDNet reports: London-based Di Donato is a well-known technology leader. In particular, she has a proven track record in sales and business operations. Besides being SAP's COO, she was also the company's chief revenue officer. In SAP's latest quarter, SAP saw an increase of 11% year-over-year revenues. Much of that came from the cloud -- where SAP saw 40% year-over-year growth. SAP's cloud is built on SUSE's Linux servers and OpenStack cloud.

Di Donato succeeds Nils Brauckmann. While officially Brauckmann is retiring, there seems to be more to the story. On LinkedIn, Brauckmann wrote: "I care very deeply for the SUSE business and its employees, and this difficult decision is based entirely on personal reasons. I am pleased to be handing over the reins to such a talented and accomplished leader as Melissa Di Donato." In his SUSE statement, Brauckman added: "She is a proven and dynamic change agent, and many of her achievements have occurred in subscription businesses that exist in high-growth cloud environments." In April, then-CEO Nils Brauchmann said his company would soon be the largest independent Linux company. This comes after Brauckmann delivered eight years of continuous expansion during his tenure, including record-breaking revenues in FY18, reports ZDNet.

"Under Di Donato's leadership, SUSE will continue to focus on growth and expansion. What that means is she's expected to advance SUSE's core business and emerging technologies, both organically and through add-on acquisitions."
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  • I think she has 48 hours to inform the department of motor vehicles that her name is now "New CEO".

    • According to TFA she is London based, so no. And changing your name in the UK is easy, you only have to print out and complete a Deed Poll, and have it signed and witnessed by 2 citizens in good standing, i.e. your mates down at the pub. The only requirement iirc is that the witnesses are freeholders. Gotta love common law.

  • A woman CEO of a Linux company? I can hear the Mountain Dew cans falling from chubby hands right now.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Those chubby hands are busy looking for another project to work on or another system to migrate to.

      Based on her Twitter she rode there all the way on the diversity wave. Doesn't bode well for SUSE.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Jarwulf ( 530523 )
      Open source has been woke for awhile and is competing with forprofit tech on who can outSocial Justice the other. Linus implementing a CoC was just the cherry on top of what has been going on for some time. Its not surprising actually. Nerds are weak. The pasty faced fat male dork being bullied is part of the natural order. Nature abhors a vacuum. So it is only natural once the jocks stopped beating them up, the SJWs would move in to start ordering them around as their new masters. Hence why all the stereo
    • Well she is pretty hot, I think a lot of Linux fanboi's are going to have her picture stuck on their walls. The mountain dew cans falling is because the hand is busy elsewhere.

  • I'll admit, a Chief Revenue Officer is a new one to me. At risk of asking the obvious, what does someone in such a role actually do?

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by boxless ( 35756 )

      sales

      • A good salesperson can really make the company. If Linux had a sales representative in Germany, then Munich might still be running Linux instead of Windows.

        Basically every company has two crucial elements: product development (ie, programmers) and sales. You don't need business development or product managers or HR, but if you have a product to sell and someone who can sell it, then the company will be successful.

    • I'll admit, a Chief Revenue Officer is a new one to me. At risk of asking the obvious, what does someone in such a role actually do?

      Just take a look at Red Hat . . . now that IBM owns them, Red Hat will have a Chief Revenue Officer, as well.

  • TLDR (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Jarwulf ( 530523 )

    TFA: Blah blah blah blah...blah blah blah

    Translation: She has a vag and went through the requisite number of sinecures we set up for her. So she's in WOW, you can totally tell from her social media that she seems really into tech and seems to be a really technically/engineering minded person! https://twitter.com/mdidonato1 [twitter.com]

  • advance SUSE's core business and emerging technologies, both organically and

    Apologies to her, since I've never heard of her, but: "CEO and organically" .... does that mean like all synergistic and exciting, dynamic visionaries, she's full of s@#t as well?

    "I've got the vision / hallucination, but I'll just delegate the job to meta-managers who'll delegate the job to managers who'll then delegate it to someone that actually implements things. And when it's done and what I said I wanted but NOT what I now want, I'll start firing them and replace them with better pawns. We're h

    • Going from sap to suse is a major demotion.

      • Yes in the sense that leaving a well paid job in hell is a demotion. I mean sure the new places is much smaller, pays less and has much higher heating bills, but on the plus side you get your soul back during the off boarding process and you get to keep it.

  • OpenSUSE needs to fix security problems (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    OpenSUSE has slipped tremendously as far as security. It in many cases has been a week or more until firefox was updated after extremely critical security problems were found. This left users exposed to extremely dangerous security problems. If you use this distro do not count on the updates to keep the packages up to date with security fixes. Pay careful attention to the current package versions and watch Ubuntu's security updates page and compare it with the updates and package versions on OpenSUSE.

  • For a while I was under the impression that SUSE was IBM's approved distro for those heathens that wanted a virtual Linux instance on their IBM mainframe - I assume that is no longer the case since IBM bougth Redhat. Who uses SUSE these days? Enquiring minds want to know.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      KDE users who want an absolutely rock solid distribution with an unparalleled management tool in the form of YAST.

    • I use OpenSUSE because its the only thing that actually booted and installed without issues on my POWER6 box.

      • I was about to say "no one cares" then I realised I didn't know what a POWER6 was, so I googled that, and then I wanted one, and I realised I do care. Damn you!

        • The hardware is fantastic and you can run Linux or OS/400 or many instances of both if you use PowerVM.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by pnutjam ( 523990 )
      In my experience, OpenSuse has the best hardware support of any distribution. They have great open build services, in place version upgrades, and knowledgeable community [opensuse-guide.org] that won't just tell you to chmod 777 something to fix it [opensuse.org].

      I use it for all those reasons.

      I used to maintain SLES on several HPC clusters at Rolls Royce, and I know several Universities that use it in the midwest.

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