The Open Source Way

In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Alan Clarke and Keith Seigel about SUSE Enterprise Linux and and Linux in general. The speakers discuss how the SUSE distribution relates to Linux as an open source project and and talk about the development of new projects like Trento. They also mention the certification process, the subscription for patches and updates, discuss an example of fixing a HANA on SUSE issue, and explain the importance of the long-standing partnership with SAP for SUSE’s business.

Alan Clarke is SAP Alliance Manager for the EMEA region at SUSE and has spent 8 of his 10 years there, embedded within the SAP ecosystem. Alan spends much of his time collaborating with and supporting both SAP partners (Hyperscalers, IHVs, GSIs and regional SIs and MSPs) and also assists SAP customers with their migration and transformation projects.

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Keith Seigel came to SUSE in December of 2020 after a 10 year career within the SAP Ecosystem. At SAP he was an Account Executive who then moved through the leadership rankings within the Sales Development organization. Shortly after leading the Sales Development teams at SAP, he moved into a leadership role for various different solutions and services at SAP. Keith now oversees SUSE’s partnership with SAP for North America.

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In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Christian Georgi and Daniel Hutzel about the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP), a Software Development Kit (SDK) to build applications in the enterprise world.  They speak about how CAP is gradually being open-sourced so that it can evolve with the help of its community. This will allow, for instance, the support of additional databases, consumption protocols, and UI frameworks. We also learn how the CAP team has engaged with the community so far and how this motivated them to open source it.

Christian Georgi has been working on development tools at SAP for many years, like the SAP HANA Studio and ABAP Development Tools (ADT) for Eclipse. He is now a product owner for CAP tools and helps spread the word about CAP.

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Daniel Hutzel has been with SAP since 2004. He invented and designed Core Data Services (CDS) in 2012, which got broadly adopted across SAP (in HANA, ABAP, and CAP), as well as Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) in 2017, which he has been leading since then as Chief Architect and CPO.

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In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guest Christoph Szymanski about Project Piper, an open source library for the creation of continuous integration and delivery pipelines. Christoph speaks about how Project Piper relates to the SAP-proprietary service “SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery“ and how Piper became a successful offering to anybody working with SAP development projects. We also learn why Christoph loves the unpopular task of writing tests and how these are the key factor to continuous delivery and integration.

Christoph Szymanski is the owner of the SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery service and also works on Project Piper, which is the library behind the service, developed as a community project. Both enable you to build and automatize software delivery pipelines. Christoph has been an application developer for 20 years, mainly focusing on web applications in different languages and frameworks. During his career, he engaged in various roles, as for example Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Product Manager.

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In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guest Arne Arnold from Red Hat about Linux and the role of distributors in the open-source world. Arne speaks about his journey from SAP to Red Hat and how the distributor made its way to become a catalyst for open-source communities. We also learn how Arne started his Linux career contributing to the search for extraterrestrial life from his student dormitory and about SAP’s contribution to Linux becoming the leading server operating system worldwide.   

Arne Arnold is a Senior Principal Product Manager within the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Unit. As the offering manager for Red Hat’s solutions targeting SAP, his focus lies on SAP certifications and product roadmap for RHEL for SAP Solutions, the RHEL High Availability solutions for SAP, and SAP automation on top of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Arne holds a Master‘s degree in Computer Science and is a certified PMI Project Manager Professional. Prior to joining Red Hat in 2018, Arne worked for VMware and SAP and was one of the first Product Managers for the SAP HANA platform.

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In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guest Shane Coughlan about OpenChain by the Linux Foundation and some other projects that build trust in the supply chain. Shane gives an overview of developments around open source and intellectual property over the last 20 years. We also learn about why OpenChain can be compared to shipping containers, and how organizations like the NSA have embraced Linux for secure US government operations.

Shane Coughlan is a GM @linuxfoundation, advisor to the @worldmobilegroup, Assembly Member of @OpenForumEurope. He is an expert in communication, security, and business development. His professional accomplishments include  

Shane is a founder of both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to open source. Currently – among other things – he leads the OpenChain Project. 

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In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Ruben Koster and Beyhan Veli about Cloud Foundry, a platform-as-a-service offering for application developers. Ruben and Beyhan talk about their personal journey with Cloud Foundry, how it works, and how it relates to VMware, Pivotal, and SAP. We also learn about their run for Cloud Foundry’s Technical Oversight Committee and their future vision for the platform.

Ruben Koster has been a Cloud Foundry and BOSH consultant for 8 years before he joined VMware in the spring of 2021. He comes from the Netherlands, works in Sweden, and is also an aspiring member of the TOC.

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• LinkedIn: https://github.com/rkoster/

Beyhan Veli has been active in the CF community for over seven years. He started to contribute as a member of the BOSH team at SAP.A year ago, he took on a broader role at SAP and now also looks into other areas of CF and general topics from a Cloud Foundry application developer perspective. In the CF Community, Beyhan is the technical lead in the Foundational Infrastructure working group and an aspiring member of the TOC.

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In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Volker Buzek and Peter Muessig about wdi5, an open-source end-to-end testing framework for UI5. Volker and Peter explain the history of wdi5, how to use it, and how it became a community project. We also learn about planned features of wdi5 and how to best get involved.

Volker Buzek is an IT-Architect at j&s-soft GmbH with a focus on web-based and mobile architectures. He is also an SAP Mentor and the inventor of wdi5.

Peter Muessig has worked for SAP since 2005 and is an initial member of the Phoenix Project. Today, he is the Chief Development Architect for UI5 and focuses on its evolution. In his spare time, he is an active member of the UI5 open source community.

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In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guest Dr. Dawn Foster, PhD. from VMware about VMware’s open source strategy, and the importance of community and project health. Dawn explains project health metrics, how they contribute to improving projects, and how well-documented processes and governance help scale communities and keep them healthy. We also learn about Dawn’s impressive experience in the IT industry as she takes us through the various stages of her professional and academic career.

Dr. Dawn Foster, PhD. has been working in open source for more than 20 years at companies like Intel and Puppet. At VMware, she leads the community strategy efforts within the Open Source Program Office. She is a Governing Board member and maintainer for the CHAOSS metrics project, a Steering Committee member for the TODO Group, and co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy Technical Advisory Group. She is also on the board of OpenUK.

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In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks to Nell Shamrell-Harrington from Microsoft and Sebastian Wolf from SAP about ClearlyDefined, a central data store for all open-source licenses across many different open-source ecosystems, and open source supply chain security at Microsoft. Nell explains both projects, talks about Microsoft’s open source history and evolution, and we also learn about the differences and similarities between Microsoft and SAP’s open source engagement from Sebastian.

Nell Shamrell-Harrington is a principal software engineer at Microsoft in the Azure Office of the CTO, and former lead engineer for ClearlyDefined. She is also on the board of directors of the RUST foundation.

Sebastian Wolf is a development architect and has been working for the SAP Open Source Program Office (OSPO) since the beginning of 2020. He first joined SAP back in 2003 as a student and has since worked in several development positions – for example at SAP SRM, ABAP Development Tools, the SAP Community Network, and Central Architecture.

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How these open-source initiatives contribute to securely processing, sharing, and managing data across organizations

In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with Nemrude “Rudi” Verzano, head of Industry 4.0 and Digital Supply Chain Innovation at SAP, about the open-source initiatives in Gaia-X, Catena-X, and International Data Spaces that represent some of the cooperation efforts between the Fraunhofer Institute and some of SAP’s large customers. Rudi explains the initiatives’ goals, how they came to be, and what benefits they offer. We also learn why joining forces with others can sometimes lead to the best results.

Nemrude “Rudi” Verzano is head of Industry 4.0 and Digital Supply Chain Innovation at SAP. Before that, he was a consultant at SAP and a freelance consultant focusing on integration and interoperability challenges in different industries.

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