Please donʼt leave the open source world, SnapLogic

I like SnapLogic. It is a great piece of middleware that makes lightweight integration convenient, using REST, JSON and Python. In another blog Iʼll talk more about why SnapLogic works, and how fun it is to write plug-ins for it.

However, over the last year it has seemed as though SnapLogic is starting to give up on the open source community, promoting its new marketplace instead (SnapStore):

• A year ago, SnapLogic had an open source installer. Now, there is a trial version and a source release (where the latest source release requires a licence and version 2.3 has not been released at all).
• A year ago, SnapLogic provided a community portal at www.snaplogic.org where everyone could browse the open source part of the code and the issue tracker. Today, permissions for public consumption of both has been revoked. I can no longer see the status of the issues Iʼve contributed to.
• A year ago, SnapLogic had a public forum at the community portal. Today, it is no longer functional.
  

There could be many reasons why SnapLogic is taking this direction. Maybe the reception of its online community was considered too limited and disappointing? Perhaps itʼs a step to reduce free riders?

Hopefully, SnapLogic will give the open source community another chance. I think it has the potential to gain momentum here, given time.