Commercial open source applications
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Open source software is widely used for private and non-commercial
applications. In addition, many independent software vendors (ISVs), value-added resellers (VARs), and hardware vendors (OEMs or ODMs) use open source frameworks, modules, and libraries inside their proprietary, for-profit products and services. From the customer's perspective, the ability to use open source technology under standard commercial terms and support is valuable. Customers are willing to pay for the legal protection (e.g., indemnification from intellectual property infringement) and "high-touch" support/training/consulting that are typical of commercial software with the innovation and independence that comes with open source.
Since GNU
and some other open source licenses stipulate that derived works must distribute their intellectual property under an open source (copyleft
) license, ISVs and VARs have developed legal and technical mechanisms to foster their commercial goals:
The underlying objective of these business models is to harness the size and international scope of the open source community (typically more than an order of magnitude larger than what would be achieved with closed-source models) for a sustainable commercial venture. The vast majority of commercial open source companies experience a conversion ratio (as measured by the percentage of downloaders who buy something) well below 1%, so low-cost and highly-scalable marketing and sales functions are key to these firms' profitability.
There is considerable debate about whether vendors can make a sustainable business from an open source strategy. In terms of a traditional software company, this is probably the wrong question to ask. Looking at the landscape of open source applications, many of the larger ones are sponsored (and largely written) by system companies such as IBM
who may not have an objective of software license revenues. Other software companies, such as Oracle and Google, have sponsored or delivered significant open source code bases. These firms' motivation tends to be more strategic, in the sense that they are trying to change the rules of a marketplace and reduce the influence of vendors such as Microsoft. In the case of smaller vendors doing open source work, their objectives may be less "immediate revenue growth" and more "developing a large and loyal community," which may be the basis of a corporate valuation at merger time.
Except for Red Hat
and VA Software, no other pure open source company has gone public on the major stock markets. However, two firms on the list below may go public by 2012. The remainder are likely to be acquired, as is the norm for all pre-public software companies.
Non-commercial
Non-commercial refers to an activity or entity that does not in some sense involve commerce, at least relative to similar activities that do have a commercial objective or emphasis...
applications. In addition, many independent software vendors (ISVs), value-added resellers (VARs), and hardware vendors (OEMs or ODMs) use open source frameworks, modules, and libraries inside their proprietary, for-profit products and services. From the customer's perspective, the ability to use open source technology under standard commercial terms and support is valuable. Customers are willing to pay for the legal protection (e.g., indemnification from intellectual property infringement) and "high-touch" support/training/consulting that are typical of commercial software with the innovation and independence that comes with open source.
Since GNU
GNU
GNU is a Unix-like computer operating system developed by the GNU project, ultimately aiming to be a "complete Unix-compatible software system"...
and some other open source licenses stipulate that derived works must distribute their intellectual property under an open source (copyleft
Copyleft
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...
) license, ISVs and VARs have developed legal and technical mechanisms to foster their commercial goals:
- A dual-license modelDual licenseMulti-licensing is the practice of distributing software under two or more different sets of terms and conditions. This may mean multiple different licenses or sets of licenses. Prefixes may be used to indicate the number of licenses used, e.g...
, where a code base is published under a traditional open source license and a commercial license simultaneously. Vendors typically charge a perpetual license fee for additional closed-source features, supplementary documentation, testing, and quality, as well as intellectual property indemnification to protect the purchaser from legal liability. - Functional encapsulation, where an open source framework or library is installed on a user's computer separately from the commercial product, and the commercial product uses the open source functionality in an "arm's length" way (under the argument that the commercial product was shipped without the open source library, even though it uses it). Vendors typically charge a perpetual license fee for the functionality that they provide under closed source, as they usually don't provide services or other direct value for the open source elements.
- A software as a serviceSoftware as a ServiceSoftware as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...
model, under the argument that the vendor is charging for the services, not the software itself (because the software is never shipped to customers or installed on their computers). Vendors typically charge a monthly subscription fee for use of their hosted applications. - Not charging for the software, but only for the support, training, and consulting services that assist users of the open source software. Vendors typically charge an annual fee for support, per-student fees for training, and per-project fees for consulting engagements.
- Charging for the software as part of an information appliance or other hardware device. In this model, the software (e.g., development libraries, administrative tools, or example applications) is delivered as part of a proprietary chip, subsystem, or hardware solution with the binaries pre-installed (sometimes burned into firmware) while the source tree is posted on Sourceforge or other public open-source repository.
- Freemium Model, making a basic version of the software available for free and charging for premium features, or applications
The underlying objective of these business models is to harness the size and international scope of the open source community (typically more than an order of magnitude larger than what would be achieved with closed-source models) for a sustainable commercial venture. The vast majority of commercial open source companies experience a conversion ratio (as measured by the percentage of downloaders who buy something) well below 1%, so low-cost and highly-scalable marketing and sales functions are key to these firms' profitability.
There is considerable debate about whether vendors can make a sustainable business from an open source strategy. In terms of a traditional software company, this is probably the wrong question to ask. Looking at the landscape of open source applications, many of the larger ones are sponsored (and largely written) by system companies such as IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
who may not have an objective of software license revenues. Other software companies, such as Oracle and Google, have sponsored or delivered significant open source code bases. These firms' motivation tends to be more strategic, in the sense that they are trying to change the rules of a marketplace and reduce the influence of vendors such as Microsoft. In the case of smaller vendors doing open source work, their objectives may be less "immediate revenue growth" and more "developing a large and loyal community," which may be the basis of a corporate valuation at merger time.
Except for Red Hat
Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....
and VA Software, no other pure open source company has gone public on the major stock markets. However, two firms on the list below may go public by 2012. The remainder are likely to be acquired, as is the norm for all pre-public software companies.
List of commercial open source applications and services
The purpose of this table is to provide reference information about the provenance and history of commercial open source applications. It is not to be used or interpreted as an advertisement for the vendors.| Product or Service Name (business models used) |
Commercial Vendor | Description | Current Version | Open Source Project Name |
Ver 1.0 Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdverTool (3,4) | AdverTool | Advertising campaign management | 1.1 | Advertisement tool | 2010 |
| Abiquo (1,3,4) | Abiquo | Cloud management | 1.6 | Abiquo | 2008 |
| Avactis Avactis Avactis is a open source ecommerce software solution .Avactis Shopping Cart has several different editions: Avactis Free, Avactis Owned, Avactis Lite, Avactis Premium, Monthly leased license and Avactis White Label edition.... (1,3,4) |
Avactis | eCommerce software | 2.0 | Avactis Shopping Cart | 2001 |
| Birt Project BIRT Project The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project is an open source software project that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities for rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE... (2) |
Actuate | Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools | 2.1.3 | BIRT Exchange Eclipse |
2005 |
| Alfresco Alfresco (software) Alfresco is a Free/Libre enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco comes in two flavours. Alfresco Community Edition is free software, LGPL licensed open source and open standards. Alfresco Enterprise Edition is commercially & proprietary... (1,3,4) |
Alfresco | Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management | 2.2 | Alfresco | 2006 |
| OpenQuote OpenQuote (software) OpenQuote is an online Insurance Quotation solution, quotations can be produced and insurance products maintained over the web. Multiple insurance products can be configured to support any line of business via externalised product definitions and rules.... (4) |
Applied Industrial Logic | Online Insurance Quotation solution | 1.3 | OpenQuote Community | 2011 |
| AppStacks (3) | AppStacks | AppStacks Open Source application suites leveraging workflow, websites. | 2.0 | AppStacks | 2010 |
| OpenClinica (1,3) | Akaza Research | Clinical Trials Software for Electronic Data Capture (EDC) and Clinical Data Management (CDM) | 3.0.4 | OpenClinica | 2005 |
| OpenSearchServer OpenSearchServer OpenSearchServer is an open source application server allowing development of index-based applications like search engines. Available since April 2009 on SourceForge for download, OpenSearchServer was developed under the GPL v3 license and offers a series of full text lexical analyzers and can be... (1,4) |
OpenSearchServer | Enterprise Search | 1.2 | OpenSearchServer | 2009 |
| Bacula Bacula Bacula is an open source, enterprise level computer backup system for heterogeneous networks. It is designed to automate backup tasks that had often required intervention from a systems administrator or computer operator.... (1,3,4) |
Bacula | Data Backup / Recovery | 2.7 | Bacula | ? |
| Bonita Open Solution Bonita Open Solution Bonita Open Solution is an open-source BPM and Workflow suite, created in 2001.It was started in French National Institute for Research in Computer Science, and then had incubated several years inside of the French computer science company Bull... (1,4) |
BonitaSoft | Business Process Management Business process management Business process management is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. BPM attempts to... Suite |
5,3 | Bonita Open Solution | 2001 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu (operating system) Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu... (1) |
Canonical Ltd | Server and client Linux distribution | 10.10 | Ubuntu | 2004 |
| CSI TriSano (1,3) | Collaborative Software Initiative | Globalized Surveillance, Case Management and Outbreak Management for disease, bioterrorism and environmental hazards | 2.5 | TriSano | 2009 |
| Compiere Compiere Compiere is an open source ERP and CRM business solution for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise in distribution, retail, service and manufacturing... (1,3,4) |
Compiere | ERP and CRM | 2.6.1 | Compiere | 2000? |
| ProjeLead (1,4) | Pragmatis Consulting | Project Management / Project Collaboration | 2.0 | ProjeLead | 2009 |
| Open Workbench Open Workbench Open Workbench is a free project management software focused on scheduling. It is an alternative to Microsoft Project. It was originally called "Project Management Workbench" and developed by Applied Business Technology, Corporation of New York in 1984. Niku Corporation purchased ABT and its... (1,4) |
Computer Associates | Project Management / Governance Tools | 1.1.4 | Open Workbench | 2004 |
| db4o Db4o db4o is an embeddable open source object database for Java and .NET developers. It is developed, commercially licensed and supported by Versant.... (1,4) |
db4o | ODBMS | 6.0 | db4o | ? |
| Entrance Entrance (display manager) In computing, Entrance , usually started with the Entranced display manager, is a display manager for the X Window System designed with the Enlightenment window manager in mind. In other words, it's a program that lets you log in to a computer.It is written using the Enlightenment Foundation... (1) |
dbEntrance Software | SQL-based data exploration tool | 1.3.34 | Entrance Community | 2007 |
| EyeOS EyeOS eyeOS is an open source web desktop following the cloud computing concept that seeks to enable collaboration and communication among users. It is mainly written in PHP, XML, and JavaScript. It acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeOS Toolkit. It includes a Desktop environment... (1,3,4) |
EyeOS | Cloud computing operating system | 2.1beta | EyeOS | 2007 |
| Asterisk Asterisk (PBX) Asterisk is a software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange ; it was created in 1999 by Mark Spencer of Digium. Like any PBX, it allows attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network and... (1,4) |
Digium Digium Digium, Inc. is a privately held communications technology company based in Huntsville, Alabama. Digium specializes in developing and manufacturing communications hardware and telephony software, most notably the open-source telephony platform Asterisk.... |
PBX server / Telephony toolkit | 1.6.2.1 | Asterisk Asterisk PBX Asterisk is a software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange ; it was created in 1999 by Mark Spencer of Digium. Like any PBX, it allows attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network and... |
2004 |
| Funambol Server Funambol Funambol is an American corporation that earns revenue from its dual-licensing business model that includes commercial software and free open source mobile data synchronization software based on the Funambol core project.-Funambol-based companies:... (1,4) |
Funambol | Mobile Email and PIM Synchronization | 6.0 | Funambol (née Sync4j) |
2001 |
| GAIUS: Generic Automated Integrated Universal System | Imtech | Machine Automation and Machine Supervisor, advanced SCADA | 2.0 | on request |
2010 |
| Poseidon for UML Poseidon for UML Poseidon for UML is a software application used to create models with the Unified Modeling Language. It originated from the ArgoUML project, but massive changes were necessary in order to make ArgoUML into a commercial project; as a result the two efforts are very divergent.... (1) |
Gentleware | Software Modeling Tool | 6.0 | ArgoUML | 1998 |
| Lotus Symphony Lotus Symphony Lotus Symphony was an integrated software package for creating and editing text, spreadsheets, charts and other documents on the MS-DOS operating systems. It was released by Lotus Development as a follow-on to its popular spreadsheet program, Lotus 1-2-3 and was produced from 1984-1992... (1,4) |
IBM | Office Productivity Suite | Eclipse, OpenOffice |
2007 | |
| Rational Application Developer Rational Application Developer IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software is a commercial Eclipse-based integrated development environment , made by IBM's Rational Software division, for visually designing, constructing, testing, and deploying Web services, portals, and Java Enterprise Edition ... (1,4) |
IBM | Software Development Tools | Eclipse | 2002? | |
| Websphere WebSphere IBM WebSphere refers to a brand of computer software products in the genre of enterprise software known as "application and integration middleware". These software products are used by end-users to create applications and integrate applications with other applications... (1,4) |
IBM | Web Server, Application Server, Middleware | Apache | 2002? | |
| Hyperic HQ | SpringSource | Application & System Monitoring | 4.6 | Hyperic Application & System Monitoring | ? |
| ITCOCKPIT (4) | GmbH | Proactive System- and Networkmonitoring Solution with SLA-, End-2-End- and Business Process Monitoring | 3.0 | ITCOCKPIT | 2005 |
| Ingres Database (1) | Ingres | RDBMS | 9.3 | Ingres | ? |
| Intalio BPMS (1,4) | Intalio | Business Process Management - Workflow | 5.2 | Eclipse, Intalio | ? |
| Snare Snare (software) Snare is a group of open-source agents, and a commercial server, used to collect audit log data from a variety of operating systems and applications to facilitate centralised log analysis... (1,4) |
InterSect Alliance | Log collection and analysis | 4.0 | Snare | 2001 |
| Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite (1) | JasperSoft | Reporting, Dashboards, Analysis, Data Integration; End to End BI solution | 3.7 | JasperForge | 1996 |
| Palo Business Intelligence Suite Palo (OLAP database) Palo is a memory resident multidimensional database server and typically used as a Business Intelligence tool for Controlling and Budgeting purposes with Spreadsheet software acting as the user interface... (1,3,4) |
Jedox AG | Palo is a Open-Source BI solution for Corporate Performance Management and OLAP-based Planning, Analysis, Consolidation and Reporting. | 3.0 | Jedox AG | 2002 |
| Jitterbit Integration Server Jitterbit Integration Server Jitterbit is a commercial open-source enterprise integration software product.Jitterbit is a graphical tool that allows for the transport and transformation between data types and sources, including web services, XML files, ODBC and JDBC databases, EDI files, flat and hierarchic file structures... (1,4) |
Jitterbit | Application Integration | 1.3 | Jitterbit | 2006? |
| Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0, is an open source web application script for collaborative search and knowledge management powered by a shared enterprise bookmarking engine that is a fork of KnowledgebasePublisher[]. It was publicly announced on 29 September 2008,... (4) |
Jumper Networks | Universal search tool powered by enterprise social bookmarking | 2.0.1.4 | Project Jumper | 2008 |
| Kaltura Kaltura Kaltura is a software company based in New York which was founded in 2006.Kaltura's technology allows publishers and content owners to publish, manage, monetize and analyze their video and other rich-media content... (1,3) |
Video Platform | Video and rich media management platform and applications | 4.0 | Kaltura | 2006 |
| KnowledgeTree KnowledgeTree KnowledgeTree, Inc. is a provider of online document management software based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company also has an office in Cape Town, South Africa. The company's product, also called KnowledgeTree, makes use of the cloud computing platform from Amazon EC2... (1,3,4) |
KnowledgeTree | Document and Records Management System | 3.4 | KnowledgeTree | 2004 |
| Liferay Portal (4) | Liferay | Enterprise web portal | 5.0.1 | Liferay Portal | 2000? |
| LogicalDOC LogicalDOC LogicalDOC is an Free/Libre document management system that is designed to handle and share documents within an organization.LogicalDOC is a content repository, with Lucene indexing, jBPM workflow, and a set of automatic import procedures.... (1,3,4) |
Logical Objects Srl | Document Management System | 6.1 | LogicalDOC Document Management - DMS | 2004 |
| LucidWorks (4) | Lucid Imagination | Open Source Search Platform | Apache Lucene / Solr | 2010 | |
| LogLogic 1 | LogLogic Lasso | collect Windows event logs | 4.0.0 | Project Lasso | 2006 |
| Magento Enterprise Magento Magento is an open source based ecommerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008. It was developed by Varien with help from the programmers within the open source community but is owned solely by . Magento was built using the Zend Framework... (?) |
Magento | eCommerce | 1.7 | Magento | 2008 |
| Mendix Agile Business Platform (?) | Mendix | agile application lifecycle management PaaS | 3.0 | Mendix | 2005 |
| ManyDesigns Portofino ManyDesigns Portofino ManyDesigns Portofino is an open-source web application framework written in Java, supporting several commercial and open source databases, and based on the Struts2 MVC framework... (1) |
ManyDesigns | Web framework | 3.1.10 | Portofino | 2009 |
| Mule Mule (software) Mule is a lightweight enterprise service bus and integration framework. It can handle services and applications using disparate transport and messaging technologies... (1,4) |
MuleSoft | Enterprise Service Bus and Integration Platform | 1.4 | Mule | 2003 |
| Mono Mono (software) Mono, pronounced , is a free and open source project led by Xamarin to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime.... (1) |
Novell | Open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET application framework | 2.4 | Mono | ? |
| MobileReflex (?) | MobileReflex | Enterprise Mobile Applications | ? | MobileReflex | ? |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a Linux distribution supplied by SUSE and targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, mainframes, and workstations but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well. New major versions are released at an interval of 3-4 years, while... (4) |
Novell | Enterprise server and client Linux distribution | 11.1 | OpenSUSE | ? |
| Openbravo Openbravo Openbravo is a commercial open source software company. The head office of Openbravo S.L. is located in Pamplona, Spain. A sales office is located in Barcelona. The company is responsible for the development of two products: Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS. For the worldwide distribution and... (4) |
Openbravo | ERP | 2.33 | Openbravo ERP | 2001 |
| OrangeHRM OrangeHRM OrangeHRM is a leading open source Human Resource Management solution which is headquartered in USA and has subsidiaries deployed across Europe and Asia. The architecture of the application targets small and medium Enterprises, thus providing a precise and convenient HRM System... |
OrangeHRM | HR Management | 2.6.6 | Orange HRM | 2006 |
| Open CASCADE Technology (1,4) | Open Cascade SAS | Software library for 3D CAD / CAM / CAE applications | 6.4 | Open CASCADE Technology | 1999 |
| Berkeley DB Berkeley DB Berkeley DB is a computer software library that provides a high-performance embedded database for key/value data. Berkeley DB is a programmatic software library written in C with API bindings for C++, PHP, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Smalltalk, and most other programming languages... (?) |
Oracle | DBMS engines | 4.6, 3.2, 2.3 | Berkeley DB, Java edition, XML edition (née Sleepycat) |
2003? |
| Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite Pentaho The Pentaho BI Suite is open source Business Intelligence suite with integrated reporting, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities. Pentaho is headquartered in Orlando, USA.- Overview :... (4) |
Pentaho | Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Data Integration, Analytics, Reporting, and Dashboards | 3.5.2 | Pentaho Open BI Suite | 2004 |
| Precurio | Precurio Intranet | Intranet, Collaboration, Help Desk, Project Management, Workflow | 3.0 | Klein Devort | 2010 |
| Posterita (1) | Posterita | Retail POS | 1.6 | Posterita POS | 2007 |
| FUSE ESB FUSE ESB Fuse ESB is an open source integration platform based on Apache ServiceMix that supports JBI and OSGi for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code... (4) |
Progress Software | Enterprise service bus | v3 | Apache ServiceMix | 2006 |
| FUSE Services Framework FUSE Services Framework Fuse Services Framework is an open source SOAP and REST web services platform based on Apache CXF for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is productized and supported by the Fuse group at FuseSource Corp... (4) |
Progress Software | JAX-WS 2.0 service-enablement framework | v2 | Apache CXF | 2006 |
| FUSE Mediation Router FUSE Mediation Router Fuse Mediation Router is an open source tool for integrating services using Enterprise Integration Patterns based on Apache Camel for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code... (4) |
Progress Software | Routing and process mediation engine | v1 | Apache Camel | 2006 |
| Fuse Message Broker FUSE Message Broker Fuse Message Broker is an open source JMS message broker that is based on Apache ActiveMQ for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code... (4) |
Progress Software | JMS platform | v5 | Apache ActiveMQ | 2006 |
| Project.net Project.net Project.net is an open source, enterprise scale project management application for Microsoft Windows and Unix operating systems. Project.net is commercial open source. Support and training are available from Project.net Inc. of Bedford, Massachusetts.... (3,4) |
Project.net | Project and Portfolio Management | 8.2.1 | projectnet | 2000 |
| Project-Open Project-Open Project-Open is a web-based Project Management application created by an open-source project team based in Spain and Germany.-Project Management:... (3,4) |
Project-Open | Project and Portfolio Management | 3.4 | Project-Open | 2003 |
| Projectivity (1,4) | Projectivity | Best-practices management of Projects, Documents, Resources and Frameworks | 3.0 | Projectivity Open Source | 2006 |
| Quipu | QOSQO | Data warehouse generation, business intelligence | 2.0 | Quipu | 2010 |
| JBoss Enterprise Middleware (1,3,4) | Red Hat | Enterprise Middleware based on Java Platform, Enterprise Edition Java Platform, Enterprise Edition Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is widely used platform for server programming in the Java programming language. The Java platform differs from the Java Standard Edition Platform in that it adds libraries which provide functionality to deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-tier... |
5.1.1 | jboss.org | 2001 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64... (3,4) |
Red Hat Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide.... |
Enterprise server and client Linux distribution | 5 | Fedora Project | ? |
| Red Hat Enterprise IPA(3,4) | Red Hat | Identity management for Linux and Unix systems | 1 | freeIPA | 2008 |
| Red Hat Network Satellite(3,4) | Red Hat | Systems management platform for Linux infrastructure | ? | Spacewalk | ? |
| 389 Directory Server (3,4) | Red Hat | LDAP-compliand directory server | ? | Fedora Directory Server | ? |
| Revolution R (1,4) | Revolution Analytics Revolution Analytics Revolution Analytics is a statistical software company focused on developing "open-core" versions of the free and open source software R for enterprise, academic and analytics customers... |
Statistical analysis environment | 4.3 | R Project | 2008 |
| Ext JS (1) | Sencha | Cross-browser JavaScript Framework | 3.2.1 | Ext JS | 2007 |
| Ext GWT (1) | Sencha | Java Framework for Google Web Toolkit | 2.1.1 | Ext GWT | 2007 |
| Sencha Touch Sencha Touch Sencha Touch is a user interface JavaScript library, or framework, specifically built for Mobile Web. It can be used by Web developers to develop user interface for mobile web applications that look and feel like native applications on supported mobile devices... (1) |
Sencha | HTML5 Mobile App Framework | 1.0 | Sencha Touch | 2010 |
| SilverStripe SilverStripe SilverStripe is a free and open source content management system for creating and maintaining websites. It provides an out of the box web-based administration panel that enables users to make modifications to parts of the website, which includes a WYSIWYG website editor... (1,4) |
SilverStripe | Enterprise CMS and development framework | 2.2 | SilverStripe | 2008 |
| Skyway Builder (1) | Skyway Software | Code generation for Java applications running on the Spring Framework | 6.2 | Skyway Builder Community Edition | 2002 |
| Softabar Command Line Email Client | Softabar | Command line email client. | 3.0.1 | SCLEC | 2005 |
| Spring Framework (1) | SpringSource | Software Development Framework | 2.5 | Spring | ? |
| Squiz Squiz Squiz is an open source software services company, founded in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1998. The company produces the enterprise content management system , Squiz Matrix .-Business model:... (1,3,4) |
Squiz.net | Enterprise Content Management System | v3.16.10 (PHP4), v3.18.3 (PHP5) | MySource Matrix | 1998 |
| SugarCRM SugarCRM SugarCRM is a software company based in Cupertino, California. They produce the web application Sugar, also known as SugarCRM, which is a customer relationship management system that is available in both open source and Commercial open source applications.Sugar's functionality includes sales-force... (1,3) |
SugarCRM | Sales Force Automation | 6.2 | SugarCRM | 2004 |
| NetBeans NetBeans NetBeans refers to both a platform framework for Java desktop applications, and an integrated development environment for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and others... (1,4) |
Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
Software Development Tools (Java, Ruby, Perl, PHP, etc.) |
6.9 | NetBeans | 2000 |
| Java Enterprise System (1,4) | Sun Microsystems | Application Server, Middleware, LDAP, etc. | 5 | Java | 2003? |
| MySQL Enterprise MySQL Enterprise MySQL Enterprise is a subscription-based service produced by Oracle Corporation and targeted toward the commercial market. Oracle's official support, training and certification focus on MySQL Enterprise.MySQL Enterprise contains... (1,4) |
Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
RDBMS | 5.0 | MySQL Community | 1995 |
| Solaris (1,4) | Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
Operating System | 10 | OpenSolaris | 2005? |
| StarOffice StarOffice StarOffice, known briefly as Oracle Open Office before its discontinuation in 2010, is a proprietary office suite. It was originally developed by StarDivision which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999... (4) |
Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
Office Productivity Suite | 8.0 | OpenOffice.org | 2000 |
| Sun Studio Sun Studio (software) The Oracle Solaris Studio compiler suite is Oracle's flagship software development product for Solaris and Linux. It was formerly known as Sun Studio... (1,4) |
Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
Software Development Tools for C, C++ | 8.1 | NetBeans | 2000 |
| Talend Open Studio Talend Open Studio Talend Open Studio is an open source data integration product developed by Talend and designed to combine, convert and update data in various locations across a business.- History :... (4) |
Talend Talend Talend is an open source software vendor that provides data integration, data management and enterprise application integration software and solutions. Headquartered in Suresnes, France and Los Altos, California, Talend has offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of... |
Data Integration | 3.2.3 | Talendforge Talendforge Talendforge.org is Talend’s technical community site.Different sections are available for users such as: Forum, Wiki, Bugtracker, Exchange, Components, Tutorials and Babili.- Forum :... |
2006 |
| Talend Open Profiler Talend Open Profiler Talend Open Profiler is an open source computer software project for data profiling. The project is driven by commercial open source vendor Talend.-Talend Open Profiler Project:... (4) |
Talend | Data Profiling, Data Quality | 3.2.3 | Talendforge Talendforge Talendforge.org is Talend’s technical community site.Different sections are available for users such as: Forum, Wiki, Bugtracker, Exchange, Components, Tutorials and Babili.- Forum :... |
2008 |
| Tasktop (1,2) | Tasktop | Task-focused interface Task-Focused Interface The task-focused interface is a type of user interface which extends the desktop metaphor of the graphical user interface to make tasks, not files and folders, the primary unit of interaction. Instead of showing entire hierarchies of information, such as a tree of documents, a task-focused... |
1.6 | Mylyn Mylyn Mylyn is a subsystem of Eclipse for task management.Mylyn is an open source implementation of the Task-Focused Interface. It provides an application programming interface for tools embedding the task-focused interface. For software developers, it helps a developer work efficiently with many... |
2008 |
| Terracotta | Terracotta | JVM level clustering | 2.7 | Terracotta | ? |
| Cruise Control Enterprise (4) | ThoughtWorks | Software Development Tools | 1.0 | CruiseControl | 2007 |
| RubyWorks (1,4) | ThoughtWorks | Software Development Tools / Runtime Environment |
1.0 | Several | 2007 |
| blee(p) (1) | Transverse | Telecom Billing Support System | 1.0 | blee(p) | 2009 |
| Qt (1) | Trolltech | GUI development toolkit | 4.4 | Qt | ? |
| Untangle Untangle Untangle is a privately held company based in Sunnyvale, California. The company provides an open source network gateway for small businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations. Untangle provides multiple gateway applications installed at the edge of a network.-History:Untangle was founded in... (1) |
Untangle Untangle Untangle is a privately held company based in Sunnyvale, California. The company provides an open source network gateway for small businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations. Untangle provides multiple gateway applications installed at the edge of a network.-History:Untangle was founded in... |
Network Gateway Platform | 8.0 | Untangle | 2007 |
| UseResponse (1) | USWebStyle | Self-hosted Customer Support Software | 1.0 | UseResponse | 2011 |
| Vyatta Vyatta Vyatta manufactures an open source router/firewall/VPN product for Internet Protocol networks . A free download of Vyatta has been available since March 2006. The system is a specialized Debian-based Linux distribution with networking applications such as Quagga, OpenVPN, and many others... (1,4) |
Vyatta | Router, firewall, VPN | VC3 | Vyatta Community | 2006 |
| XAware (1,4) | XAware | Data Integration, Composite Data Services | 5.4 | XAware Forge | 2000 |
| Zarafa Zarafa (software) Zarafa is the name of an European open source collaborative software, developed in Delft, the Netherlands. The company that develops Zarafa, previously known as Connectux, is also called Zarafa. The Zarafa groupware provides email storage on the server side and brings its own Ajax-based mail client... (1,3,4) |
Zarafa | Email and calendaring solution | 6.40 | Zarafa opensource edition | 2005 |
| Zend Core / Platform(1,4) | Zend | Commercialized version of PHP language, infrastructure | 3.6 | Vyatta Community | 2002? |
| Zenoss Zenoss Zenoss is an open source application, server and network management platform based on the Zope application server. Released under the GNU General Public License version 2, Zenoss Core provides a web interface that allows system administrators to monitor availability, inventory/configuration,... (2) |
Zenoss | Application, Network, and Systems Management | 2.3 | Zenoss Core | 2006 |
| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... (1,3,4) |
Zimbra | Enterprise Email Messaging and Collaboration | 5.0.16 | Zimbra Open Source Edition | 2004 |
| Zmanda Zmanda Zmanda Inc. is an Open Source and Cloud backup software company. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.. In partnership with open source companies such as Sun and MySQL, the company contributes to many open source projects.-Open Source Projects:... |
Zmanda | File / dbms backup and recovery | 2.6.1 | Zmanda Community Edition | ? |
| Zope Zope Zope is a free and open-source, object-oriented Web application server written in the Python programming language. Zope stands for "Z Object Publishing Environment", and was the first system using the now common object publishing methodology for the Web... (3,4) |
Zope | Content management system and web portal | 2.10.5 | zope.org | ? |
See also
- Business models for open source softwareBusiness models for open source softwareThere are several different types of business models for making profit using open source software .- Introduction :Open source software can be sold and used commercially. It is a part of the software industry. The financial return on open source software can also come from selling services, such...
- Commercial open source softwareCommercial Open Source SoftwareThe phrase Commercial open source software is used as a euphemism for Proprietary Open Source Software that contains some elements of free and open source software in order to legitimately claim to be "open source", however sometimes also limits availability of some generally enhanced...
- Open Source Development Labs