SUSE CEO: "If you want secure software, it has to be open source"
Summary
The SUSE CEO views the future with confidence, but, “Under competitive pressure, decisions are often made without enough care.” Van Leeuwen is referring to vendor lock-in, which keeps rearing its ugly head. SUSE Liberty Linux, the “no-migration” replacement for the Red Hat-based OS, smoothly takes over the critical enterprise role from RHEL and provides further years of support. For example, the company has been working with car brand BMW since 2007, and Deutsche Bank recently announced that it is entrusting support for its own Red Hat environment to SUSE. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about SUSE’s own Kubernetes software Rancher, its Linux distributions or the container security solution NeuVector Prime: it can all be combined with or replaced by other open source options. Van Leeuwen sees that the dream of the hybrid cloud, being able to run workloads wherever you want, is still held back by proprietary hyperscalers and closed-source, non-interoperable tools.