Compare FOSSA vs. Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle
FOSSA is ranked 9th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) while Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle is ranked 2nd in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 17 reviews. FOSSA is rated 0, while Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle is rated 8.6. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle writes "Checks our libraries for security and licensing issues". FOSSA is most compared with Black Duck , WhiteSource and Snyk, whereas Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck and WhiteSource.
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Information Not Available | The license fee may be a bit harder for startups to justify. But it will save you a headache later as well as peace of mind. Additionally, it shows your own customers that you value security stuff and will protect yourselves from any licensing issues, which is good marketing too. In addition to the license fee for IQ Server, you have to factor in some running costs. We use AWS, so we spun up an additional VM to run this. If the database is RDS that adds a little bit extra too. Of course someone could run it on a pre-existing VM or physical server to reduce costs. I should add that compared to the license fee, the running costs are so minimal they had no effect on our decision to use IQ Server. Our licensing costs are on an annual basis. The Sonatype licensing model is transparent with no hidden costs or holes. The price is good. We certainly get a lot more in return. However, it's also hard to get the funds to roll out such a product for the entire firm. Therefore, pricing has been a limiting factor for us. However, it's a fair price. Pricing is decent. It's not horrible. It's middle-of-the-road, as far as our ranking goes. They're a little bit more but that's also because they provide more. Pricing is comparable with some of the other products. We are happy with the pricing. We're pretty happy with the price, for what it is delivering for us and the value we're getting from it. Its pricing is competitive within the market. It's not very cheap, it's not very expensive. |
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| Nexus Lifecycle | |
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Open Source has become the critical supplier for modern software companies, changing everything about how people think about their code. FOSSA builds the infrastructure for modern teams to be successful with open source. FOSSA's flagship product helps teams track the open source used in their code and automate license scanning and compliance. Since then, over 3000 open source projects (Kubernetes, Webpack, Terraform, ESLint) and companies (Docker, Tesla, Mapbox, Hashicorp) rely on FOSSA's tools to ship software. If you are in the software industry today, you're now using code that runs FOSSA. | Nexus Lifecycle gives you full control over your software supply chain and allows you to define rules, actions, and policies that work best for your organization and teams. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Applause, JS Foundation, SmartThings | Genome.One, Blackboard, Crediterform, Crosskey, Intuit, Progress Software, Qualys, Liberty Mutual Insurance |
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No Data Available | Financial Services Firm43% Insurance Company29% Manufacturing Company7% Government7% Software R&D Company31% Comms Service Provider12% Financial Services Firm10% Insurance Company9% |
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