SUSECon 26 – open-source giant ushers in a resilient future with NVIDIA, Oracle, and more

One word dominates SUSECon 26 in Prague, Czech Republic, this week: resilience. ‘Your resilient future’ reads a floor-to-ceiling banner in the vast atrium at the Hilton Prague, while the word features on signage throughout the event, and echoes from the conference stage at every turn.

But why choose beautiful Prague for the Luxembourg-based open-source firm’s annual shindig? Well, history tells us it has been a resilient city since the Fourteenth Century, of course, through the rise and fall of countless dynasties and empires. So, perhaps the message is that if, like Prague, your IT infrastructure is a mix of ancient and modern, and if it is held together by the tech equivalent of pedestrian bridges, then SUSE is like the Vltava River running through it all, constant and… well, resilient.

Or perhaps Prague just offers a central location in Europe for users and partners to meet. Who can say ...