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, adopting Business models for open-source software, alphabetized by the product/service name. 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
389 Directory Server (3,4) Red Hat LDAP-compliant directory server ? Fedora Directory Server ?
Abiquo (1,3,4) Abiquo Cloud management 2.6 Abiquo 2008
AdaControl (4) Adalog Source-code controller and coding standard checker for Ada 1.13r8 AdaControl 2004
AdverTool (3,4) AdverTool Advertising campaign management 1.1 Advertisement tool 2010
Alfresco (1,3,4) Alfresco Enterprise content management, web content management 2.2 Alfresco 2006
AppStacks (3) AppStacks AppStacks open-source application suites leveraging workflow, websites. 2.0 AppStacks 2010
Asterisk (1,4) Digium PBX server / telephony toolkit 1.6.2.1 Asterisk 2004[1]
Avactis (1,3,4) Avactis eCommerce software 2.0 Avactis shopping cart 2001
Bacula (1,3,4) Bacula Data backup/recovery 2.7 Bacula ?
Berkeley DB (?) Oracle Corporation DBMS engines 4.6, 3.2, 2.3 Berkeley DB, Java edition, XML edition
(née Sleepycat)
2003?
Birt Project (2) Actuate Business intelligence and reporting tools 2.1.3 BIRT Exchange
Eclipse
2005
blee(p) (1) Transverse Telecom billing support system 1.0 blee(p) 2009
Bonita Open Solution (1,4) BonitaSoft Business process management suite 6.4.0 Bonita Open Solution 2001
Cloudify (?) GigaSpaces Cloud orchestration and DevOps Automation 2.7.0 GigaSpaces 2012
Compiere (1,3,4) Compiere ERP and CRM 2.6.1 Compiere 2000?
CSI TriSano (1,3) Collaborative Software Initiative Globalized surveillance, case management and outbreak management for disease, bioterrorism and environmental hazards 2.5 TriSano 2009
Cruise Control Enterprise (4) ThoughtWorks Software development tools 1.0 CruiseControl 2007
DaDaBIK Eugenio Tacchini Database front-end applications generator 4.4 DaDaBIK 2001
db4o (1,4) db4o ODBMS 6.0 db4o ?
Entrance (1) dbEntrance Software SQL-based data exploration tool 1.3.34 Entrance Community 2007
eXo Platform eXo Platform Enterprise Social Platform 4.0.4 eXo Platform 2003
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
EyeOS (1,3,4) EyeOS Cloud-computing operating system 2.1beta EyeOS 2007
Funambol Server (1,4) Funambol Mobile email and PIM synchronization 6.0 Funambol
(née Sync4j)
2001
Fuse Message Broker (4) Progress Software JMS platform v5 Apache ActiveMQ 2006
FUSE ESB (4) Progress Software Enterprise service bus v3 Apache ServiceMix 2006
FUSE Mediation Router (4) Progress Software Routing and process mediation engine v1 Apache Camel 2006
FUSE Services Framework (4) Progress Software JAX-WS 2.0 service-enablement framework v2 Apache CXF 2006
GAIUS: Generic Automated Integrated Universal System Imtech Machine automation and machine supervisor, advanced SCADA 2.0
on request
2010
GNAT Pro(sells licenses) AdaCore Ada compiler 2011/4.6 GNAT 1995[2]
Hyperic HQ SpringSource Application & system monitoring 4.6 Hyperic application and system monitoring ?
Ingres Database Ingres RDBMS 9.3 Ingres ?
Intalio BPMS Intalio Business process management – workflow 5.2 Eclipse, Intalio ?
ITCOCKPIT GmbH Proactive system- and networkmonitoring solution with SLA-, end-2-end- and business process monitoring 3.0 ITCOCKPIT 2005
Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite (1) JasperSoft Reporting, Dashboards, Analysis, Data Integration; End to End BI solution 4.5 JasperForge 1996
Java Enterprise System (1,4) Oracle Corporation Application server, middleware, LDAP, etc. 5 Java 2003?
Jitterbit Integration Server (1,4) Jitterbit Application integration 1.3 Jitterbit 2006?
JBoss Enterprise Middleware (1,3,4) Red Hat Enterprise middleware based on Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5.1.1 jboss.org 2001
Joget Workflow (1) Open Dynamics Workflow, Business process management, RAD 3.1 Joget Workflow 2009
Jumper 2.0 (4) Jumper Networks Universal search tool powered by enterprise social bookmarking 2.0.1.4 Project Jumper 2008
Kaltura (1,3) Kaltura Video and rich media management platform and applications dual-licensed under AGPL, and commercial license, provided as self hosted and SaaS 6.0 (Falcon) Kaltura 2012
KnowledgeTree (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 (1,3,4) Logical Objects Srl Document Management System 6.1 LogicalDOC document management – DMS 2004
LogLogic 1 LogLogic Lasso collect Windows event logs 4.0.0 Project Lasso 2006
Lotus Symphony (1,4) IBM Office productivity suite Eclipse, OpenOffice 2007
LucidWorks (4) Lucid Imagination Open Source Search Platform Apache Lucene / Solr 2010
Magento Enterprise (?) Magento eCommerce 1.7 Magento 2008
Portofino (4) ManyDesigns Web application framework 4.0.10 Portofino 2009
Mendix Agile Business Platform (?) Mendix agile application lifecycle management PaaS 3.0 Mendix 2005
MobileReflex (?) MobileReflex Enterprise mobile applications ? MobileReflex ?
Mono (1) Novell (now Xamarin) Open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET application framework 2.10 Mono ?
Mule (1,4) MuleSoft Enterprise service bus and integration platform 1.4 Mule 2003
MySQL Enterprise (1,4) Oracle Corporation RDBMS 5.0 MySQL Community 1995
NetBeans (1,4) Oracle Corporation Software development tools
(Java, Ruby, Perl, PHP, etc.)
6.9 NetBeans 2000
Odoo (4) OpenERP S.A. ERP, CMS/Ecommerce 8.0 Odoo 2005
Openbravo (4) Openbravo ERP 2.33 Openbravo ERP 2001
OpenClinica (1,3) Akaza Research Clinical trials software for electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM) 3.0.4 OpenClinica 2005
Open eSignForms (1,2,3) Yozons, Inc. Web-based contracting, electronic signatures, document management and process workflow. 13.11.9 Open eSignForms 2011
OpenQuote (4) Applied Industrial Logic Online insurance quotation solution 1.3 OpenQuote Community 2011
OpenSearchServer (1,4) OpenSearchServer Enterprise Search 1.2 OpenSearchServer 2009
Open Workbench (1,4) Computer Associates Project management / governance tools 1.1.4 Open Workbench 2004
OrangeHRM 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
Palo Business Intelligence Suite (1,3,4) Jedox AG Palo is an open-source BI solution for corporate performance management and OLAP-based planning, analysis, consolidation and reporting. 5.1 Jedox AG 2002
Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite (4) Pentaho Business intelligence, data mining, data integration, analytics, reporting, and dashboards 3.5.2 Pentaho Open BI Suite 2004
Poseidon for UML (1) Gentleware Software modeling tool 6.0 ArgoUML 1998
Posterita (1) Posterita Retail POS 1.6 Posterita POS 2007
Precurio Precurio Intranet Intranet, collaboration, help desk, project management, workflow 3.0 Klein Devort 2010
Projectivity (1,4) Projectivity Best-practice management of projects, documents, resources and frameworks 3.0 Projectivity open source 2006
ProjeLead (1,4) Pragmatis Consulting Project management / project collaboration 2.0 ProjeLead 2009
Project.net (3,4) Project.net Project and portfolio management 8.2.1 projectnet 2000
Project-Open (3,4) Project-Open Project and portfolio management 3.4 Project-Open 2003
Qt (1) Trolltech GUI development toolkit 4.4 Qt ?
Quipu data warehouse management QOSQO Staging, Data warehouse and Datamart structure and ETL generation, data vault, business intelligence 2.0.1 Quipu 2010
Rational Application Developer (1,4) IBM Software development tools Eclipse 2002?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (3,4) Red Hat 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 ?
Revolution R (1,4) Revolution Analytics Statistical analysis environment 4.3 R Project 2008
RubyWorks (1,4) ThoughtWorks Software development tools /
runtime environment
1.0 Several 2007
Sencha Touch (1) Sencha HTML5 mobile app framework 1.0 Sencha Touch 2010
SilverStripe (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
Snare (1,4) InterSect Alliance Log collection and analysis 4.0 Snare 2001
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 ?
Solaris (1,4) Oracle Corporation Operating system 10 OpenSolaris 2005?
Squiz (1,3,4) Squiz.net Enterprise content management system v4.8.2 (PHP5) Squiz Matrix 1998
StarOffice (4) Oracle Corporation Office productivity suite 8.0 OpenOffice.org 2000
SugarCRM (1,3) SugarCRM Sales force automation 6.2 SugarCRM 2004
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (4) Novell Enterprise server and client Linux distribution 11.1 OpenSUSE ?
Sun Studio (1,4) Oracle Corporation Software development tools for C, C++ 8.1 NetBeans 2000
Talend Open Studio (4) Talend Data integration 3.2.3 Talendforge 2006
Talend Open Profiler (4) Talend Data profiling, data quality 3.2.3 Talendforge 2008
Tasktop (1,2) Tasktop Task-focused interface 1.6 Mylyn 2008
Terracotta Terracotta JVM level clustering 2.7 Terracotta ?
Websphere (1,4) IBM Web server, application server, middleware Apache 2002?
Untangle (1) Untangle Network gateway platform 8.0 Untangle 2007
UseResponse (1) USWebStyle Self-hosted customer support software 1.0.2 UseResponse 2011
Varnish (2,4) Varnish Software Web accelerator 3.0.3 Varnish cache 2006
Vyatta (1,4) Vyatta Router, firewall, VPN VC3 Vyatta Community 2006
Warewolf ESB Warewolf ESB, Systems Integration, API Management Warewolf ESB
XAware (1,4) XAware Data integration, composite data services 5.4 XAware Forge 2000
xTuple Postbooks (1,3,6) xTuple ERP, CRM, accounting, reporting 4.1 Postbooks 2001
Zarafa (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 (2) Zenoss Application, network, and systems management 2.3 Zenoss Core 2006
Zimbra Collaboration (1,3,4) Zimbra Enterprise Email Messaging and Collaboration 8.0.6 Zimbra Open Source Edition 2004
Zmanda Zmanda File / dbms backup and recovery 2.6.1 Zmanda Community Edition ?
Zope (3,4) Zope Content management system and web portal 2.10.5 zope.org ?

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