Thursday January 13, 2:52 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SuSE Linux AG Enlarges Board of Directors NUREMBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2000--With the appointment of a larger board of directors, SuSE Linux AG is setting the course for the further expansion. Roland Dyroff, 33, will continue to be chief executive officer (CEO) of SuSE Linux AG and direct the internationally-oriented company group. Dirk Hohndel, 32, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), is the head of technology and development, and Roland Giebitz, 38, Chief Operations Officer (COO), will oversee finance and operations. ``In the past year, SuSE Linux AG increased the number of distribution and service centers from two to seven. With revenue of 22 million dollars and over 250 staff members, SuSE is one of the leading companies in the Linux field worldwide,'' summarizes company founder Roland Dyroff. ``We will consolidate our strong position in the market and take a leadership position worldwide in the coming business year. To do this we not only have the personnel and structural means, but also the financial means available, through the involvement on the part of Apax Partners and Intel.'' Dirk Hohndel's CTO responsibilties, apart from the technical direction of SuSE development, are the expansion and development of strategic alliances. Dirk Hohndel studied Mathematics at the University of Wuerzburg, before working as a software engineer at the AIB Software Corporation and at Platinum Technology, then as a Unix architect at the Deutscher Bank in Frankfurt. As vice-president, Hohndel is in charge of the XFree86(tm) project, which represents a technical milestone for Linux development. Roland Giebitz, as commercial director (Chief Operations Officer, COO), completes the board trio. He will focus on adjusting operational processes to the rapidly growing structure, especially in view of the global orientation of the company. Roland Giebitz studied business economics in Frankfurt and earned his MBA at the London Business School. He has worked for McKinsey & Co., Duesseldorf; AGAB Aktiengesellschaft fur Anlagen und Beteiligungen, Frankfurt; Strategic Decisions Group, Richmond (England); and Thimm Verpackung GmbH & Co., Northeim; and Sartorius AG, Gottingen (both in Germany). About SuSE: With over 250 employees, SuSE Linux AG is one of the biggest Linux specialists worldwide, as well as one of the oldest, having been founded in 1992. Thanks to its stability and quality, SuSE Linux is used by more than a million private users and more than 50,000 business customers. Along with the development and sales center in Nuremberg, subsidiaries in Oakland/USA, London, Prague and Merano sul Parano/Italy ensure the further development and dissemination of SuSE Linux. For using Linux in a business environment, SuSE offers an extensive range of consulting and support services, as well as commercial Linux software and complete Linux systems. With SuSE Labs, SuSE is making a significant contribution to Linux development, especially in the areas of the Linux kernel, glibc, XFree86(tm), KDE, ISDN4Linux, ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) and USB (Universal Serial Bus). SuSE Inc., the US subsidiary, is located in the greater San Francisco Bay sales and technical support and Premier Partner Programs to ISVs, customers, distributors, and resellers. The US web site is http://www.suse.com. -- ____________ sent on Linux ____________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Si votre email etait sur iFrance vous pourriez ecouter ce message au tel ! http://www.ifrance.com : ne laissez plus vos emails loins de vous ... gratuit sur iFrance : emails (20 MO, POP, FAX), Agenda, Site perso -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/