Brauckmann was in Melbourne to preside over a company conference titled “Open Source in the Modern Enterprise”; a similar event is being held in Sydney today.
At least one Linux distribution, Ubuntu, has expressed the intention to go down the mobile and tablet path, while the older of the two desktop environments, KDE, is expected to debut a tablet running a version of the DE later this year.
Brauckmann (seen above) said SUSE was concentrating on areas like broadcasting systems, video systems, healthcare services and mass storage. For example, GEC already has a body scanner that runs SUSE.