The Open Source Way
Episodes
Cloud Foundry
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud Foundry after Kubernetes: How a lighter community process, growing contributions, and a new path to Kubernetes are shaping the platform’s next...
UI5 & MCP - Navigating the Model Context Protocol in SAP
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we delve into the intricacies of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) within the SAP ecosystem, a pivotal component designed to offer dom...
ABAP and Open Source – A Senior Manager’s Perspective
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Open Source Way, Karsten Hohage chats with Sonja Lienard, Senior Vice President and Head of ABAP Platform at SAP SE. They delve...
ABAP and Eclipse
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guest, Sonja Liénard, about ABAP, the collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation, and Open Sou...
ABAP and Eclipse
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guest, Sonja Liénard, about ABAP, the collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation, and Open Sou...
OpenSearch | feat. Pallavi Priyadarshini
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Juergen Walter, Pallavi Priyadarshini and Karsten Schnitter about OpenSearch. OpenSea...
OpenMCP
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Johannes Ott and Maximilian Techritz, who are both software engineers at SAP, talk about Open Managed Control Planes – an open source project that a...
QEMU
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Karsten Hohage talks about QEMU with Helge Deller, SAP and Alex Bennée, Linaro. QEMU, short for “Quick Emulator”, is a virtualization software th...
Catena-X- Tractus-X
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our host, Karsten Hohage and guest, Siegfried Kiermayer, cloud architect at SAP Commerce, talk about governance issues and solutions in open source pr...
Asset Administration Shell
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The host Karsten Hoage and with Thiago Weber Martins – the product manager for AAS Digital Twins at SAP about the Asset Administration Shell (AAS). ...
InnerSource Commons
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Karsten Hohage speaks with Danese Cooper, Guilherme Dellagustin (SAP), and Russ Rutledge about InnerSource Commons. Founded in ...
SAP R3 Port to Linux
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Karsten Hohage speaks with Christoph Roland (former SAP) and Harald Kuck (SAP) about the past – when they both ported SAP soft...
CAP Operator
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Karsten Hohage speaks with Sathyajith Krishnan (SAP) and Pavan Nayak(SAP) talk about CAP Operator – which deploys and manages ...
Garden Linux
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Karsten Hohage speaks with Florian Wilhelm (SAP) about Project Garden Linux – a lightweight, secure Linux distribution optimiz...
Open Resource Discovery (ORD)
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Karsten Hohage speaks with Simon Heimler (SAP) about Open Resource Discovery (ORD) – a protocol that allows applications and s...
abapGit
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Karsten Hohage speaks with Michael Schneider and Marc Bernard about abapGit – an open source Git client developed for the ABAP...
EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Karsten Hohage discusses the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) with Mirko Boehm, Mike Milinkovich, and Sebastian Wolf. Our gue...
Open Source and Universities
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Karsten Hohage discusses open source and InnerSource at universities with our guest Clare Dillon. Clare explains how collaborati...
Sovereign Tech Fund – Investing in the Future Today
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks to Powen Shiah and Mirko Swillus about the Sovereign Tech Fund. Established in 2022, it focuses on crit...
The Growing Importance of Software Bills of Materials (SBOM)
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks to Max Mehl and Sebastian Wolf about Software Bills of Materials or SBOMs. An SBOM is a detailed record...
Project “Foxhound” – Hunting Cross-Site Scripting on the Web
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks to Thomas Barber about project “Foxhound”, an SAP-maintained fork of Firefox (the web browser) that...
The TODO Group – Talk Openly, Develop Openly
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode our host Karsten Hohage talks to Ana Jiménez Santamaria about the TODO Group, a community dedicated to sharing knowledge, collaborati...
Open Component Model (OCM) – Describe, Transport, Deploy
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OCM is an extensible standard accompanied by a toolset designed to enable the automation of many software-lifecycle-related processes. It can be defin...
Summer Break 2023 - We'll be back in August!
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Summer Break 2023 - We'll be back in August!
Credential Digger – detecting leaked secrets on GitHub
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Credential Digger is an SAP Open-Source code scanner for detecting hardcoded secrets. In this episode, Slim Trabelsi discusses with host Karsten Hohag...
Do Good and Talk about it!
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with Johannes Bechberger, who is an open-source developer at SAP. They discuss why and how Johannes pro...
Debunking InnerSource Myths
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Georg Gruetter from Robert Bosch and Michael Picht from SAP about common concerns regar...
SUSE – Delivering automation and enterprise grade Open Source software to the SAP ecosystem
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) – A step-by-step journey towards open source
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Christian Georgi and Daniel Hutzel about the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (C...
Project Piper – From InnerSource to Open Source
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guest Christoph Szymanski about Project Piper, an open source library for the creation of cont...
Red Hat – Distributor and Mediator in the Open-Source World
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guest Arne Arnold from RedHat about Linux and the role of distributors in the open-source worl...
Linux Foundation – Building Trust in Software Supply Chains
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guest Shane Coughlan about OpenChain by the Linux Foundation and some other projects that buil...
Cloud Foundry – A One-Size-Fits-All Solution for Application Development
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
wdi5 – UI5’s Open-Source End-to-End Testing Framework
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Open Source at VMware – Key Driver of Innovation
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 importa...
Open Source at Microsoft – ClearlyDefined and Open-Source Supply Chain Security
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks to Nell Shamrell-Harrington from Microsoft and Sebastian Wolf from SAP about ClearlyDefined, a central ...
Gaia-X, Catena-X, International Data Spaces – Three Initiatives, One Goal
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Mercedes-Benz FOSS – Open Source in the Automotive Industry
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Wolfgang Gehring and Christian Wege about FOSS at Mercedes-Benz Group AG. Wolfgang and ...
Eclipse Dirigible – An Open-Source Platform for End-To-End Rapid Development of Business Applications
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with Yordan Pavlov and Dragomir Anachkov about the open-source projects Eclipse Dirigible, an applicati...
SapMachine – The OpenJDK for All Things SAP
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Christoph Langer and Thomas Stüfe about SapMachine, an SAP-distributed version of Open...
The Open Documentation Initiative – The Gold Standard of Collaborative Documentation
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Karsten Hohage talks with our guests DJ Adams and Jens Haley about the Open Documentation Initiative, an initiative to make the docum...
Compiler History – The Open Source in Your Favorite 1990s First-Person Shooter
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Jack Schueler and Sebastian Wolf about Watcom, a spinoff of the University of Waterl...
Fundamental Library – An Open Source Library for Everyone
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Mladen Droshev and Fabian Tempel about the Fundamental Library, an open-source library created...
Rust – A Language on the Rise
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests André Borrmann and Philipp Degler about Rust, a programming language that was open-sourced fr...
SAP Cloud SDK – Why Open Source is the Way to Go
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Marika Marszalkowski and Frank Essenberger about the SAP Cloud SDK, an NPM library which helps...
License Compliance – From risks to developer friendly processes
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with Dobrinka Mladenova and Janaka Bohr about how the license compliance processes for open source at SAP ev...
ZEISS and SAP – An Open Source Talk
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Holger Streidl, Corporate Open Source Officer at Carl Zeiss AG and Peter Giese, Director of th...
Fosstars – A Rating Approach to Open Source Components
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Michael Bernhardt and Artem Smotrakov about Fosstars, a java-based framework that allows you t...
Clean ABAP – Best Practices for Effective ABAP Code, Straight from the Expert
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Klaus Häuptle and Florian Hoffmann about the importance of having a readable and maintainable...
OpenUI5 – A One-Stop-Shop UI Toolkit
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Andreas Kunz and Peter Muessig about OpenUI5. OpenUI5 is a JavaScript-based web user interface...
Project "Kyma" – An Easy Way to Extend Enterprise Applications
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Krasimir Semerdzhiev and Valentin Vieriu about project „Kyma”. Kyma is an open source project...
Project "Gardener" – Managing Kubernetes at Scale
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Vasu Chandrasekhara and Tim Usner about project Gardener. Today, Kubernetes is the natural choice...
Outbound Process Made Easy – SAP’s Process and Tooling
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guest Fabienne Haag about the Open Source Outbound Process at SAP and how it was implemented. During ...
InnerSource Rocks
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guest Michael Picht about InnerSource at SAP and why it should be the default development model at SAP. ...
Corona-Warn-App: Behind the Scenes
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SAP collaborated very closely with the German Government, Robert Koch Institute, Deutsche Telekom, and other partners to develop the Corona-Warn-App i...
Open Source at SAP
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SAP is the 9th largest commercial contributor to open source projects. Mostly known for proprietary software, almost all of SAP’s solutions touch...