SAP—SAP published Open Source Manifesto formalizing commitments as founding/platinum member of six major open-source foundations
On June 26, 2024, SAP published an official Open Source Manifesto, publicly committing to sustained investment in open-source development. SAP holds founding and/or platinum-level membership in the Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Cloud Foundry Foundation, Continuous Delivery Foundation, and OpenAPI Initiative, plus Silver membership in the Apache Software Foundation, and is a major contributor to OpenJDK. SAP maintains multiple actively-used open-source projects including Gardener (Kubernetes-based cluster management, a CNCF project), GardenLinux, OpenUI5 (its web application framework, Apache-2.0 licensed since 2013, ~270 GitHub contributors), Open Resource Discovery, and Open Component Model. In December 2023 SAP also open-sourced its previously proprietary SAP Cloud SDK for Java under Apache-2.0. Per the third-party Open Source Contributor Index (OSCI), which measures active GitHub contributors by company email domain, SAP has ranked among the largest commercial contributors to open source for several years running.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.286 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (low ×0.5) × confidence (0.57)
Evidence (1 signal)
SAP News Center announcement of Open Source Manifesto, quoting CTO Juergen Mueller
SAP's official news center announced the publication of the company's Open Source Manifesto on June 26, 2024, with CTO and Executive Board member Juergen Mueller describing it as 'a promise to continue driving open innovation and collaboration at a significant scale.' The announcement was corroborated by SAP's own open-source developer page listing foundation memberships and by SAP Community technical blog posts documenting the open-sourcing of the SAP Cloud SDK for Java.