Nice industry recognition coming today for Markus Rex, a long time SUSE Linux and Novell executive. He’s been appointed by the Linux Foundation to serve at Chief Technology Officer.

We’re not losing Markus forever. We’re lending him to the Foundation for awhile (end 2008), because we think he can really help the broader Linux market there. He’s been working on Linux standards for a long time, and was one of the main drivers behind SUSE Linux always being one of of the first distros to comply with the various iterations of the Linux Standards Base.

We think he can help energize new standardization efforts, which will be increasingly critical as Linux moves into more demanding data center roles. Needless to say, we look forward to working with Markus and the Linux Foundation to continue to drive that organization’s success.

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