SAP Open Source
We believe in co-innovation and collaboration with open source. With a growing engagement in foundations and projects, we would like to encourage developers to contribute to open source projects that we are sharing and supporting to empower our ecosystem.
From preserving an open-source project through a fork that initiated OpenSearch, to establishing a new foundation - the OpenSearch Software Foundation was announced in September at the Open Source Summit of the Linux Foundation.
This webinar was with Anandhi Bumstead (Director, Software Development, OpenSearch at AWS) and Wolfgang Theilmann (Development Manager BTP at SAP). Both are involved in development activities with this major project and take responsibility in the newly founded OpenSearch Software Foundation. You might learn why this project has been transferred into the new OpenSearch Software Foundation, how license changes impact large open source projects such as ElasticSearch and how AWS and SAP now collaborate in the new set-up of the OpenSearch Software Foundation.
With an interesting new podcast episode taking you three decades back in time, we would like to celebrate the 4th anniversary of the open source podcast series hosted by the SAP Open Source Program Office.
In 1998/99 Christoph Rohland, and Harald Kuck ported SAP's R/3 ERP to Linux. Listen to our new podcast episode hosted by Karsten Hohage to learn more about this start of SAP's open source journey which marks an important step in establishing Linux in the enterprise market. Read more in the related blog post.
Linux Foundation announced on September 16, 2024 the launch of OpenSearch Software Foundation to foster open collaboration in Search and Analytics. SAP joins this foundation as premium member having representatives in the governing board as well as technical steering committee.
This marks a significant milestone in SAP’s strategic commitment in fostering innovation and supporting our unified, business-centric, and open SAP Business Technology Platform. Read more in the recent press release of the Linux Foundation and under the OpenSearch Software Foundation webpage.
SAP has launched an Open Source Manifesto, which reaffirms our commitment to driving innovation through openness and transparency.
Read more about SAP’s open source principles in the News Center article by Michael Ameling, EVP, Chief Product Officer at SAP BTP.
Building on our 26-year open source journey, SAP is ranked as one of the top ten commercial contributors to open source on GitHub Open Source Contributor Index. Our new manifesto reflects our enduring commitment to the open-source community as a major contributor.Open-Source ABAP is still a mystery to many people in the SAP ecosystem. Yes, of course you can read the complete source code of an ABAP system, but as essential elements of the four essential freedoms of open source are lacking, it’s more source-available than open source.
In addition, even with abapGit that celebrated it’s 10th birthday just recently, the ABAP Open Source community is still relatively small compared to other development environments or programming languages. But that doesn’t need to stay this way. In-line with our SAP Open Source Manifesto, we want to contribute to the growth and wellbeing of the ABAP Open Source ecosystem.
Learn more about SAP's ABAP Open Source Namespaces in this recent blog post by Sebastian Wolf.
OCM
The Open Component Model (OCM) is an open standard for describing software artifacts in a uniform and machine-readable way. OCM enables consistent end-to-end lifecycle management processes and a secure software supply chain.
More info: GitHub, OCM Website.
Gardener
Gardener is a production-grade Kubernetes as a service management tool that works across various cloud-platforms (e.g, AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba & SAP Datacenters) and on-premise (e.g. with OpenStack).
More info: GitHub, Twitter, Gardener Website.
Kyma
Project Kyma offers a flexible and easy way to connect and extend enterprise applications in a cloud-native fashion. It is designed natively on Kubernetes and thus, it is portable to all major cloud providers.
More info: GitHub, Twitter, Kyma Website.
OpenUI5
Code once. Run on any device. OpenUI5 enables you to create enterprise-ready Web apps responsive to all devices. It follows open standards, and includes powerful development concepts and a rich set of UI controls.
More info: GitHub, Twitter, OpenUI5 Website, Demo Kit.
SapMachine
A Java Development Kit and Runtime Environment based on the OpenJDK, built for enterprise Java workloads.
More info: GitHub, Twitter, SapMachine Website.
Find all other projects here: github.com/sap.
SAP Cloud SDK
The SAP Cloud SDK is a set of libraries that help developers consume SAP services in their applications on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). The libraries conveniently abstract capabilities of SAP BTP to reduce boiler plate code.
More info: GitHub, SAP Cloud SDK documentation.
Memberships
SAP is a contributor to the following open source projects and foundations:
- Linux Foundation™ (silver member)
- Linux Foundation Europe (founding and silver member)
- OpenSearch Software Foundation (founding and premier member)
- Apache Software Foundation™ (focus on Olingo and Hadoop)
- Eclipse Foundation™ (founding and strategic member)
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation™ (platinum member)
- Cloud Foundry Foundation (founding and platinum member)
- Continuous Delivery Foundation™ (founding member)
- OpenAPI™ Initiative (founding member)
- OpenJDK™ (major contributor)
- ToDo Group (general member)
- Open Invention Network (general member)
- Open Source Security Foundation (general member)
- InnerSource Commons (supporter)
- OSPO Alliance (general member)
- OASIS Open (sponsor member)
- Industrial Digital Twin Association (founding member)
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