The manifesto provides guidance to internal developers, as well as customers, partners, and the developer ecosystem. It emphasizes transparency, security, and shared success, aiming to accelerate innovation and collaboration on a significant scale. By embracing open source, SAP not only accelerates its own innovation but also empowers its customers and partners to build on a solid foundation.
SAP actively contributes to several open source projects and foundations. Some notable ones are — Gardener, Kyma, and OpenUI5.
SAP also actively supports and sponsors organizations in the open source community, including the Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and the Apache Software Foundation. If anyone is interested, one can explore more of SAP's open source projects on GitHub.
The manifesto coincides with SAP’s participation in the Open Reference Architecture project under the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative, exemplifying SAP’s support for digital sovereignty in cloud infrastructure and services. This project’s development, contributed as open source, showcases SAP’s transparent approach to fostering community-led growth and innovation.
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