Andover.Net Acquires freshmeat.net; Andover.Net is Now the Largest Linux Network and the Leading Source for Content, News and Community.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1999-- Andover.Net (www.andover.net), the award-winning online IT network dedicated to serving the builders of the Internet, today announced the acquisition of freshmeat.net, a leading Linux software and news Web site (www.freshmeat.net). With this acquisition and the recent acquisition of Slashdot.org(TM), Andover.Net has quickly become the number one destination for the Linux and open source community. Freshmeat's visitors brings Andover.Net's total number of unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. to over 2.5 million per month and over 40,000,000 page impressions per month. Founder Patrick Lenz will continue control of the freshmeat.net site as well as provide direction for other Linux efforts at Andover.Net. "Andover.Net is excited about freshmeat joining our growing Linux and IT Web network. With the freshmeat acquisition, Andover.Net continues its focus on Linux and serving the Linux community," said Bruce Twickler, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Andover.Net. "Andover.Net, including its freshmeat and Slashdot sites, is the number one source for Linux on the Web." "By joining Andover.Net we can extend our reach and bring Linux applications to a broader audience. Another advantage is there are so many synergies between Slashdot and freshmeat.net that when Slashdot joined Andover.Net it made a lot of sense to me to go there too," said freshmeat.net founder Patrick Lenz. "I'm happy to be a part of Andover.Net who is dedicated to the Linux community, has the technical knowledge and also the resources to allow me to add personnel to ensure the continued success and growth of freshmeat." About freshmeat.net Founded in 1997 in Germany, freshmeat is the largest Linux software application repository (1) A database of information about applications software that includes author, data elements, inputs, processes, outputs and interrelationships. A repository is used in a CASE or application development system in order to identify objects and business rules for reuse. and also contains application news and a community section. Freshmeat's primary focus is to continue to build its application repository that includes a searchable application index. The index also informs users if an application is released, the date of the release and if the application is still in development. Freshmeat also allows users to post their comments on new Linux applications to inform other users of useful new releases. There's also a feature that shows the number of hits each application has received to determine which Linux product is the most popular. Freshmeat also offers news announcing new commercial Linux applications and editorials on hot community topics. There's an active Linux lounge with over 35,000 members that provides specific benefits and services to its users, such as highlighting only the new applications and comments that have been added since the last time they visited freshmeat.net. "Freshmeat.net and Slashdot have always pretty much gone together like peanut butter and jelly jelly /jel·ly/ (jel´e) a soft substance that is coherent, tremulous, and more or less translucent; generally, a colloidal semisolid mass. " said Slashdot founder Rob Malda. "Andover.Net is the bread." Meet Freshmeat.net, Slashdot.org and Andover.Net at Linus Torvalds' Keynote keynote /key·note/ (ke´not) in homeopathy, the characteristic property of a drug that indicates its use in treating a similar symptom of disease. Party Andover.Net is sponsoring Linus Torvalds' Keynote Party. Freshmeat founder Patrick "scoop" Lenz, Slashdot founders Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. and Andover.Net founder Bruce Twickler will be at the Andover.Net keynote party, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 7:30 pm, at the Parkside Hall across the street from the San Jose Convention Center. Please call Manya Rossignoli or Chris Stamm at (781) 684-0770 to schedule an interview. About Andover.Net Andover.Net (www.andover.net) is the award-winning online IT network dedicated to serving the builders of the Internet. Andover.Net includes a unique combination of IT news and reviews; resources for IT buyers & programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists ; and e-Tools for Web builders. Andover.Net also provides advertisers with the most effective online advertising programs for targeting people building the Internet. For the latest news, reviews and resources visitors go to AndoverNews(TM) (www.andovernews.com). This site also includes Slashdot (www.slashdot.org) the leading site for open source programmers; The IT Managers Journal(TM) (www.itmanagersjournal.com), providing news and advice for IT managers; the Internet Traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. Report (TM)(www.internettrafficreport.com), providing Internet performance data every 15 minutes; and TechSightings(TM) (www.techsightings.com), reviews of the Web's best sites. IT buyers and programmers download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. products at DaveCentral(TM) (www.davecentral.com) which provides over 6,000 free downloadable Windows products; FreeCode(TM) (www.freecode.com), where users can easily view and use free code; and Slaughterhouse slaughterhouse: see abattoir; meatpacking. (TM) (www.slaughterhouse.com), that provides free downloadable Windows software. MediaBuilder(TM) (www.mediabuilder.com) is the online Web-building resource with unique e-Tools. MediaBuilder includes Animation Factory (www.animfactory.com), the Internet's largest proprietary GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. image library. Serving a total of 2,500,000 unique visitors per month and over 35 million page impressions, Andover.Net is headquartered in Acton, Mass. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : freshmeat.net and Slashdot.org will be exhibiting at Linux World in the .org Pavilion Andover.Net, HTMLWorks, GIFWorks, AndoverNews Network, MediaBuilder, Internet Traffic Report, DaveCentral, Free Code, IT Managers Journal, Slashdot and Slaughterhouse are trademarks of Andover.Net. |
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