Open Source Extended

SAP's open source history confirms this perspective: Tux, the Linux mascot, was a guest at SAP's Cebit trade fair stand well over ten years ago. Today, it is difficult to mention all of SAP's open source products and initiatives in the same breath. In the current October issue of E-3 you will find a small selection of open source-related books (pages 22 and 23). On page 61, Frederik Kramer from Initos asks: SAP and open source - do they go together? He provides the answer by quoting the SAP Annual Report 2019: "Our solution portfolio [...] is growing as we acquire other companies and thus increasingly use third-party program code, including open source code." In an exclusive E-3 interview, SAP Executive Board member Jürgen Müller then explains on page 62: "GitHub is the leading platform, which SAP also uses intensively for its open source projects [...] We also use other platforms such as GitLab and are actively involved in numerous open source foundations." And, as in every E-3 issue, Sabine Söllheim from Suse concludes our open source reporting for the SAP community with her Linux column. This once again impressively proves that SAP is much more than just Abap and NetWeaver. The consequence: Let the better one win! FOR EXAMPLE: SAP Smart Data Integration (SDI) versus Apache Kafka. Open source reading recommendation from the E-3 editorial team: "A guide to SAP data integration" by former SAP employee Werner Dähn (https://e3magtp.greatsolution.dev/ein-leitfaden-zur-sap-datenintegration/).