The SAP Foundation: Will Open Source Termites Swarm?
July 2, 2010
SAP, which as you may know, is an outfit I try to watch. As an addled goose, I check up on the IBM-esque outfit every couple of months. My next scheduled peek is September. Alas, I read “CoreMedia Web CMS Readies to Woo SAP Portal Users” and noted this passage:
…many of SAP’s known features — such as collaboration and KM (Knowledge Management) — CoreMedia [an open source content management system shop] chose not to support — focusing mainly on the infrastructure/delivery capabilities — citing the fact that they wanted to avoid any “dependencies” on those features based on what they heard about SAP not developing those capabilities in the future. And not to mention that CoreMedia already has a separate, existing portal product — CoreMedia Open Portal — that allows to manage apps like content, be in compliance with JSR-286, and support mash up technologies among other things. But all in a different UI than those of CoreMedia CMS or the SAP portal module. The question is why go after the portal technology, when there’re so many things that can be done on the core WCM side of the CoreMedia house. Yet, if you use SAP NetWeaver as your PMS (and we do love three-letter acronyms, this one stands for Presentation Management System), a module like this one might be for you. It will be available around September 2010.
SAP. Wooden foundation. Open source termites? Could there be a chow down coming? The bigger question is, “If CoreMedia’s method works on the SAP foundation, will other open source vendors follow suit? That may be a digital termite swarm.
Stephen E Arnold, July 2, 2010
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Hmmm, what makes you think that “Open Portal” is an open source product? The CoreMedia CMS is certainly not.