From:	 "Rupert Warwick" <RWARWICK@fphcom.com>
To:	 
Subject: SUSE LINUX AG WELCOMES NEW CTO
Date:	 Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:48:25 +0000

SUSE LINUX AG WELCOMES NEW CTO

Munich-based Nemetschek AG's development manager joins Europe's leading Linux
provider

Boris Nalbach, an experienced IT professional, assumes the position of Chief
Technology Officer (CTO) at SuSE Linux AG, the international Open Source
technology leader and solutions provider.

"Boris Nalbach was our favorite candidate for staffing the Executive Board
vacancy," said Gerhard Burtscher, Chairman of the corporation's Executive
Board. "Under his supervision, we will introduce additional smart Linux
solutions for end customers as well as for enterprises and promote the
strategic and operational collaboration with our technology partners."

Boris Nalbach (age 43) has been active in the software development
departments of leading companies for more than 15 years. After his graduation
in electrical engineering - technical computing, Nalbach embarked on his
career with ELSA AG, Aachen, Germany, in 1985. From 1990 on he headed the
software development. In 1995 he joined Nemetschek AG, Munich, Germany, where
he eventually took up responsibility for research & development,
documentation, and quality assurance & testing.

"SuSE Linux will prevail in the market. This is no mere start-up buzzphrase,
it's what I'm personally deeply convinced of," said Boris Nalbach. "In the
past ten years, SuSE has played a substantial role in the development of
Linux and has accumulated a globally unique engineering know-how in this
sector. To me, Linux clearly demonstrates that the Open Source development
approach results in excellent software that leads to superior solutions for
our customers."

*** Customer-Oriented Business Units Serve Multi-Layer Linux Market

SuSE Linux AG uses the following four Business Units to handle diverse
customer segments in line with the specific requirements of the respective
target groups:

* The "Qualified Users" division makes use of the product families SuSE Linux
and SuSE press to address technically skilled private users.

* The "Business Users" division offers largely preconfigured solutions
products from the range of "SuSE Business Solutions" to SMEs.

* The "Corporate Users" division presents a comprehensive range of
consulting, development, implementation, and training services to government
offices and public administrations as well as large customers such as
Heinrich Bauer Verlag, T-Online, and DG Capital.

* The Business Unit "Technology Partners" focuses on development services and
technology transfer for IT providers like AMD, Compaq, IBM, Intel, Oracle,
SAP, and SGI.

CTO Boris Nalbach will be in charge of the entire product
planning/development of SuSE Linux AG. The divisions Research & Development,
Product Management, and the Business Unit 
"Technology Partners" report to him. The other Business Units and the foreign
subsidiaries report to CEO Gerhard Burtscher. CFO Johannes Nussbickel heads
the Finance & Administration division.


About SuSE:
SuSE Linux AG is the international technology leader and solutions provider
in Open Source operating system (OS) software.  SuSE´s unique expertise in
Linux and their largest development team worldwide dedicated to Open Source
software has contributed to the recognition of SuSE as a leader in Linux
solutions. SuSE offers the largest support database to the public, and owns
the largest hardware database in the Linux market. Furthermore, SuSE supports
more hardware platforms than any other commercially available Linux
distribution.

Designed for Web and enterprise server environments and efficient as a home
and office platform, SuSE's distribution, surrounding features, effective
configuration and intelligent design result in the most complete Linux
solution available today.

SuSE Linux AG, headquartered in Germany, and SuSE Linux Ltd., based in
Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, UK are privately held companies focused entirely
on supporting the Linux community and Open Source development. With a
workforce of over 500 people worldwide, SuSE has offices all over Europe,
Latin America and in the US.

SuSE contributes considerably to Linux development projects such as the Linux
kernel, glibc, XFree86TM, KDE, ISDN4Linux, ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture) and USB (Universal Serial Bus).

Additional information about SuSE can be found at http://www.suse.co.uk
For more information please contact:
Rupert Warwick 
T: 020 7436 4336 F: 202 7436 4224 E: rwarwick@fphcom.com 





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