#MATTERMOST OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE#

What’s new with 7.0 is that Mattermost now directly integrates calling functionality, by making use of the open source WebRTC protocol that is supported in all modern web browsers. Prior to the new release, Mattermost relied on integration with third-party call services, including Zoom, to enable voice call functionality. “At the end of the day, as an open-core company, Mattermost as a company sets the direction and the people who want to opt in and accelerate that vision are the people that contribute to us.” Zoom is ok, but one click to call is better “We have a lot of interaction with our community,” Tien said. The Mattermost open-source project has more than 4,000 individual contributors that collectively have made over 30,000 code contributions. For teams of 500 or more users, that’s where he expects that organizations will need to consider the commercial release.įor Tien, open source is also about community contributions. For Mattermost, the enterprise features are about compliance, scale and advanced configuration.įor small and mid-sized teams, Tien said that the open-source version is more than capable.

#MATTERMOST OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE#

In the open-core model, the open-source software provides the foundation, or the core, while additional enterprise features that are proprietary are built in a commercial version.

Tien explained that Mattermost has taken an open-core approach with its commercial platform. Mattermost has both commercial and open-source versions of its software and both editions are now at version 7. “One of the most powerful things about open source is to be able to solve problems once and fix them and we’re thinking about that in the collaboration space around developers.” Collaborating around an open-source collaboration suite “Our mission is really to replace a lot of the custom tooling that engineering and technology leaders have, which often involves a lot of spit and glue,” Mattermost cofounder and CEO Ian Tien, told VentureBeat.

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