 So for our final talk today, saving the best for last, a couple of weeks ago, Suze announced at SuzeCon and Prague that they were opening up and launching Suze Cloud Foundry, our newest distribution of Cloud Foundry. Yes, it's very exciting. So we're going to have Michael Miller, the president in strategy, alliances, and marketing join us on stage alongside Thomas DiGiacomo, the CTO. And we're going to have Fredric Lardinois, who's been kind enough from TechCrunch to join us and moderate a lively discussion. I'm going to give Thomas the credit for that song choice. For that song. A little pantera. I never heard anybody. I like that music. It's a bit of an 80s theme going on here. I don't know what's going on. I just need some younger people on stage probably. Yeah. Play some Kanye or something. The kids listen to you these days. When I think of Suze, I think of a Linux distribution. One I installed maybe in the 90s, personally. Why are you here? So we told you this would be a lively conversation, right? And I'm glad you were using Suze in the 90s. I'm glad to hear that. So at Suze, we just celebrated our 25th year anniversary, just last month. Actually, at Suzecon. And 25 years is a long time. And back then, that was the early days of Linux, the early days of Open Source. And obviously, we started out as a Linux distribution with a focus on the enterprise and mission critical use cases. But over that 25-year period, enormous amount has changed in the IT industry. And Open Source has really become the de facto model for innovation in infrastructure software. And so as that's happened, and all of these new software-defined technologies have emerged, it was really a logical thing for Suze to do, to build on our Linux roots and then start to expand our portfolio. And really, we think of ourselves now, not as a Linux distribution vendor, but as a provider of software-defined infrastructure and application delivery technologies across a whole spectrum of software-defined technologies. With this announcement of Suze Cloud Application Platform, our Cloud Founder distribution just being the very latest. Yeah, and we are developers ourselves as well. So we understand the challenges that our customers are facing with development. And we're also here because it's Cloud Foundry. So we checked all the Open Source solutions. And by far, Cloud Foundry is the most mature solution, better quality of code, the best community for providing such kind of solutions to developers. So it was, I mean, a no-brainer to join Cloud Foundry. And we actually did that even before having a product. So we were involved in the community with the Bosch CPI interfaces a couple of years ago. And now we're very happy to be part of the community, have a product and contribute to different projects. We're excited to have you here. Thank you. Now, to get to that point, though, you acquired a lot of the technology and talent as well, I think, from HPE. How did that come together as an acquisition, kind of a semi-acquisition? So that's a question that I've gotten a lot. And so many of you probably know, we announced in March, Sousa acquired OpenStack and Cloud Foundry technology and talent from HPE. So we saw that as a great opportunity to bring great technology and great people into Sousa and help accelerate our existing plans and roadmaps. So obviously we've been in the OpenStack business already for many years from the beginning. And we were on our way towards developing a Cloud Foundry distribution. And this was an ideal way for us to accelerate that whole process. And some of those folks are here and the technology is here. And we're really excited to have been able to enter this market faster and bring a certified Cloud Foundry distribution to market quicker. And Thomas can probably comment a little bit more about some of the uniqueness of the technology and what that enables our customers to do. And it's unique in certain ways and we want to bring that to the community as well. So for instance, we are delivering Cloud Foundry as containers. So we are containerizing Cloud Foundry core and services. We also have a UI for Cloud Foundry that is open source. And we are submitting that to the CF incubation project. And that's the way we do development. We develop upstream and we work with all the community members and then we support our customers. We've been doing that for 25 years. We'll do that for Cloud Foundry together with Kubernetes a lot. We're also very involved in Kubernetes. And one thing I wanted to mention, so we're in Switzerland, if you talk chocolate, you have to say Swiss chocolate. So it's not only peanut butter and chocolate together, it's peanut butter and Swiss chocolate. But that doesn't make any sense. We're already in Switzerland. That should be obvious. Yeah, it's obvious. The whole chocolate thing didn't make sense to me because it's jelly, but that's a whole different thing. Taking one step back though, HPE wasn't really able to make it, well, they sold it, so they weren't really able to make a business out of their Cloud Foundry distribution. Why do you think you can? So I'm not gonna comment on Cloud Foundry or on HPE's business or what the decisions they've made, but I can speak for Susa. We're a fundamentally different type of company. As Thomas just noted, we are an open source business and we have been for 25 years. And building on those Linux roots, our understanding of how to work upstream, product ties, open source innovation for the enterprise and bring it to market is completely different than say a well-established hardware vendor adding something like that to their portfolio. And now what we're gonna do with that is we're gonna integrate that across our other portfolio offerings. But at the same time, we're gonna leave our partners and customers with the openness and the freedom of choice at all levels in the architecture to mix and match our technologies to create best-to-breed solutions. So that's another unique approach that we take with whatever we bring to market. Does that create some degree of confusion though for your customers if you have that many solutions for them? It creates choice, so that they can and sometimes confusion. So you have to come with a default stack that can meet their needs. But most of the time they have existing pieces. So they might have a container infrastructure already. They might have a VMware infrastructure. They might have hybrid cloud workloads. So they have something and they need to accommodate that. And Cloud Foundry is providing that flexibility actually to do so. We've been doing that at many layers of the stack from OpenStack to Linux. And including with non-susers solutions actually we are partnering with our competitors a lot. And it's because the IT world is diverse, the factor. And nobody is starting from scratch almost. Maybe in San Francisco, but not in Europe. The more startups in Europe. We have some SAP. Abby, from your perspective, what does SUSE bring to the Cloud Foundry Foundation? They bring a lot. So they are our first Linux distribution that's part of the community and now a core contributor. So it brings a wealth of knowledge around Linux, Linux kernels that I'm really excited about. They're also only the second software distribution of Cloud Foundry. So that's really exciting as we think about choice and flexibility and portability that SUSE can bring to the table. And then finally, one thing that was really struck me as I got the chance to go to SUSEcon in Prague a couple of weeks ago. So thank you for the invite, Michael. Thanks for being there. One thing that really struck me as I sat at lunchtime and got a chance to talk to the participants and a lot of your customers is how much your customers love SUSE. They just love everything about SUSE. And I feel like if you- Oh, we love them too. Yeah, we do. They love you. And if you can have that in your own community and that's something you can bring to the Cloud Foundry community, I feel like our community can only benefit. For me, I think about it, how do we make the community bigger but also more inclusive, more open and more welcoming to everyone? And I feel like that's something that SUSE can bring to our community as well. Are you saying there's not enough love in the Cloud Foundry community? There's love. We can choose more. You can never have too much love or chocolate. It's kind of like chocolate. Swiss chocolate. Yeah, Swiss chocolate. Swiss chocolate and peanut butter. You can never have too much of either. Where do you go from there? You were talking about the customers in the loft. But comparing your customers to the Cloud Foundry community right now, do you feel like you're gonna bring in new customers that the Cloud Foundry community does not see at this point or where do you see yourself there? Well, I think it's gonna be both. So we have a lot of our well-established customers that have been using SUSE technology for years are very interested in making Cloud application platform part of their digital transformation. So they're entering a new era. And I know we all overuse that term digital transformation, but the reality is most of our enterprise customers have a mission or a vision of where they wanna go. And application development, both Cloud Native and bringing their existing applications forward, it's part of that vision. And maybe we'll bring some people starting from the infrastructure because we have a lot of customers doing that for storage or networking or clouds and not only coming from the application directly, but they want to go there. And so we might bring that aspect as well to the Cloud Foundry community. And I think our vision of bringing together in a complementary way, as we've been talking about all morning, technologies like Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry, bringing those things together in a way that makes sense in the real world for customers that are trying to get stuff done, that's really appreciated by our customers. They want a practical, usable solution, not a religious debate about either or mutually exclusive approaches to technologies. They wanna see these technologies integrated in a useful, practical way. Make sense in a way like chocolate and peanut butter. Yes, indeed. Makes sense together. All right. Swiss chocolate. Swiss chocolate. In Nutella. Sorry, yeah, Swiss chocolate. All right. Our time is up, thank you very much. And I wanna thank all of you for joining us here today and Frederick for moderating our lively discussion. And we're really excited to have Susie Cloud Foundry now part of our Cloud Foundry offerings. Thanks, Abby. So thank you. Thanks, everybody.