LUXEMBOURG/NUREMBERG (dpa-AFX) - Weakening software provider Suse continued to make slow progress in its third fiscal quarter. Sales rose 2 percent year-on-year to $173 million (160 million euros) in the three months to the end of July, the SDax company said Wednesday in Luxembourg. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, adjusted for special effects, slumped 14 percent to $55.9 million due to high growth investments. Below the line, the specialist for Linux operating systems widened its loss by 9 percent to 14 million dollars.

Suse is about to be taken over by the Swedish majority shareholder and financial investor EQT, which holds around 79 percent of the company with its operational headquarters in Nuremberg and wants to take it off the stock exchange again because of problems in the business. Shareholders are to receive a total of 16 euros per share, including an interim dividend to be paid by Suse itself, but can also remain shareholders in what will then be a private company./men/stk