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Open Source Software (OSS):
“You can’t tell the players without a scorecard”
The following
pages line
up many OSS products, communities and commercial backers for easy reference
.
There
a
re
pages for applications, business intelligence, databases, middlewar
e and so forth.
OSS
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Few
OSS “products”
are actually
productized in the
commercial sense of
that word
. Estimates
say there as many as
100,000 OSS products
but
Optaros
has
identified about 300 as
enterprise ready.
My
list does not come from
the Optaros list but
strictly from
my
research as it proceeds.
To be listed an OSS
product
needs to be
available via some
“
O
SS
” license, of
which there are
many
(“freeware”
does not
count
)
The groups
listed
here
develop and
support
the OSS
product
listed to the
left.
Typically the com
-
munity is composed
of a number of
“volunteers” (often
users of the services
provided by the
commercial backer
listed to the right)
and employees of
the commercial
backer. Less often,
but the more
common under
-
standing of
“community,” they
are just a bunch of
folks that “live to
program.”
Typically but not always, the
companies
listed here have
pr
oductize
d
the “free” code
listed
on the far left in cooperation with
the “community” listed
immediately to the left.
T
he
Community and the Commercial
Backer
can be
linked loosely or
tightly
.
The commercial backer usually
supplies
for
-
fee
support and
servi
ces
related to the OSS
product but also often offers a
traditionally licensed commercial
product built on top of the OSS
product (noted at right if relevant)
and sometimes makes the OSS
product’s
software
functionality
available as a service (SaaS)
.
Some
commercial backers
also
employ a “benevolent dictator”
for the comm
unity.
Many software suppliers use OSS and
give back to the community in terms
of adapters, bug fixes, quality control
and so forth but do not themselves
offer an OSS product.
They are no
t
listed in this “OSS scorecard” but are
noted in my monthly research
reports.
Many large software suppliers, in
particular IBM, develop and market
both OSS and non
-
OSS software
products.
Multiple “forges” exist which
combine different community efforts
and provide typical software
development services such as version
control, check
-
in/check
-
out, etc.
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OSS “Product”
Community
Commercial Backing
Comments
Applications
ADempiere
ERP
ADempiere.com
None
; really stresses “community”
Breakaway from Compi
ere
Adaptive Planning
project management
Captive community
Adaptive Planning Inc
Started traditional
,
offers freeware
too;
OSA member
Alfresco ECM
Captive community
Alfresco
Also hosts a “forge”
Asterisk PBX
Asterisk.org
Digium
Written by Auburn student
in 1999
Compiere
ERP
Partners mostly
Compiere
Started traditional in 1999
, NEA VC
,
and Red Hat Exchange member
Centric CRM
Like a SIG
Centric
Started traditional
, OSA member
;
multiple ways to license
OFbiz
ERP
Apache
.org
Small group
of
independent
cons
ultants
OpenBravo
ERP
See their wiki
OpenBravo
Started traditional
OpenOffice
personal
productivity
Openoffice.org
Sun
Acquired as traditional, 2000
Plone ECM
Plone.org
A Foundation
Many third
-
party service providers
support
PostBooks
Captive communit
y
Xtuple.com
Market
ed
commercially as
OpenMFG, former company name
;
OSS on
PostgreSQL database only
Nexedi
ERP
erp5.org
Nexedi
Based on Zope application server
;
combining with CPS
SugarCRM
Sugarforge.org
SugarCRM
NEA and other VCs own
; has its own
excha
nge
SplendidCRM
User group
SplendidCRM
Microsoft .NET based
Zimbra
Collab
oration
See developer page
Zimbra
(in process of being
acquired by Yahoo)
Has appliance version
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OSS “Product”
Community
Commercial Backing
Comments
Business Intelligence
BIR
T
Eclipse
Actuate
and others/Actuate donated
BIRT stands for
BI and reporting
tools (BIRT)
Apatar
data
integration
Mostly users
Apatar
Also trying to launch forge
Bizgres BI
Bizgres.org (see
Greenplum)
Greenplum
, JasperSoft, Kinetic
Networks and Loyalty
Matrix
For P
ostgreSQL
(Loyalty Matrix has
been acquired by Responsys)
Dash dashboard
Dash
MarvelIT
Possibly defunct
Greenplum DW
Own community
Greenplum
Works with Netezza, Sun and others
JasperSoft BI
Jasperforge.org
Jaspersoft
OSA
leader
/RHX member
JPivot
Eclipse
a Java Server Page (JSP) tag library
Mondrian OLAP
s
erver
See Sourceforge
Pentaho
Pentaho has other OSS projects
SpagoBI
OW2 consortium
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica
Italian company involved with OW2
Kettle
data
integration
Pent
aho
See other Pentaho projects
Loyalty Predictive
Analytics
Responsys/Loyalty Matrix
Talend Open Studio
Own forge
Talend
Built into other products such as
Jaspersoft
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OSS “Product”
Community
Commercial Backing
Comments
Databases
Berkeley DB
University of
Calif
None but
see SleepyCat
Outgrowth of early UNIX forks
Derby
DB
Apache
subjproject
Consultants
Originally IBM Cloudscape
EnterpriseDB
Distributes a version of PostgreSQL
Ingres
See community
page
Ingres
Sp
un out of CA
Jackrabbit
Repository
Apache.org
Content repository is a prerequisite
for content/document management
MaxDB
Sap.sdn.com
SAP
Formerly an Adabas adjunct
;
underlies SAP Business ByDesign
SaaS offering
MySQL
DB
See community
page
MySQL
Swedish
; founded 2001
PostgreSQL
DB
PostgreSQL.org
Many sponsors
Many developers work for major
ISVs such as Sun, Red Hat
SleepyCat
DB
Berkeley DB
derivative
Oracle
Acquired in 2005
; designed for
embedding
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OSS “Product”
Community
Commercial Backing
Commen
ts
Middleware
Apache
HTTP
Apache.org
Covalent and many others
Bundled in commercial WebSphere,
Oracle AS, many other products
ActiveMQ
MOM
Apache.org
Logicblaze and others
Geronimo
AS
Apache.org
IBM and many others
Underlays WebSphere Community
Celtix
ESB
ObjectWeb
(now
OW2) originally;
now Apache
.org
Iona
Code merged into LogicBlaze
product by Iona but Celtix goes on
CPS ECM
Cps
-
project.org
Nuxeo
Teamed with Nexedi ERP
; based on
Zope
AMQP
Envoy
They say they have not announced
yet
Inta
lio
BPM
Captive
Intalio
Started traditional
JBoss middleware
Jboss.org
Red Hat
Acquired in 2006
; includes
Hibernate, jBPM and others
Mo
zilla
portal
Mo
zilla
Foundation
Mo
zilla Corp.
S
hell companies that trace back to
Netscape
/AOL
Mule
ESB
Codehause.org
Mulesource
Also has forge
OpenESB
Bostech and others
Java based
Interbroker
OSMQ Group
Possibly defunct
Joram
OW2
Java
All Sun middleware
JCP
Sun
All Sun software is now OSS
Tomcat
AS
Apache.org
Many sponsors
X
mlblaster
MOM
Seems to be communi
ty oriented
Zope AS
Zope.org
Zope Corp
AS for CM
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OSS “Product”
Community
Commercial Backing
Comments
Development Tools and
Utilities
Eclipse
IDE
Eclipse.org
IBM
Member of JCP
GNU Utilities
Gnu.org
A foundation
Closely tied to Free Software
F
oundation
Java
Jcp.org
Sun
Java Community Process (JCP)
Perl
Perl Foundation
Convoluted sponsor
ship
, incl. Yet
Another Society
PHP
Zend Technologies
Python
Python Foundation
Zope was a founding member;
Google is a major participant
Microsoft is a pe
nding sponsor
qT (cute) GUI builder
Trolltech
Part of KDE
SASH
See individual
“products”
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OSS “Product”
Community
Commercial Backing
Comments
Operating System
and Infrastructure
ClamAV anti
-
virus
technology
Now owned by SourceFire
Debian GNU/Linux
(Hurd to come)
OS
Debian Project
A foundation
(Debian is to OSI as
GNU is to Free Software Foundation)
Split out from Open Source
Initiative (OSI) in 1999
Fedora Core
Fedoraproject.org
Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL
5) is resulting “product”
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SNORT intrusion
detection
Sourcefire
Terracotta
virtualization
Terracotta
Started
traditional
Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu
Foundation
Canonical
Isle of Man company
Xen
server
virtualization
Xen Community
Xensource
P
rivately held by big
-
name VC’s
;
being acquired by Citrix
Zenoss
network
management
Zenoss
Ziptie systems
management
Alterpoint
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