"Strong players"? What quantitative evidence exists demonstrating that SuSE has any more than a marginal and insignificant share of server or desktop installs?
"Not that surprising, SLE POS is one of SUSE's best selling products
For example, in the states, 70% of Fortune 100 merchandisers, speciality retailers, and food and drug stores use it
Including a few big names like Walmart"
https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/b1cvdj/spotted_at...
Its journalistic verbiage, what do you want them say? Ultimately its been bought for $2.5billion, if it were a startup it would be a unicorn, it seems to be moving forward, what more do you want.
There are probably many companies that have changed hands that many times also.
There is some more data in this article: https://fosspost.org/analytics/insights-on-redhat-suse-the-m...
Interestingly it claims 750 employees for SuSE in 2016; perhaps the business entity sold today includes some departments that were elsewhere in the org-chart in 2016?