Collab.Net Recruits Leading Open Source Talent to Direct Engineering and Strategy Initiatives; Key Players Extend Collaborative Software Development Capabilities.Business/Technology Editors http://www.collab.net--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2000 Collab.Net, provider of scalable services and infrastructure for the development of Open Source software, today announced the appointment of James Barry James Barry may refer to:
CONTRIBUTING TO THE OPEN SOURCE PROCESS - James Barry comes to Collab.Net from International Business Machines, with a solid understanding of the Open Source Community and commercial software development. While at IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Barry initiated the WebSphere product line of Internet middleware servers and was pivotal in IBM's adoption of Apache. Barry worked with the Linux and Open Source strategy teams bringing IBM into the world of Open Source software as part of his strategy responsibilities. Prior to IBM, Barry was a partner in ResNova software, an early Webserver software company acquired by Microsoft. In addition, he also founded InfoPort.com, one of the first commercial ISPs, in 1993. - Frank Hecker brings more than 20 years experience in helping to sell complex information technology products and services to large commercial and government organizations. Prior to joining Collab.Net, he worked for Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. and later for America Online See AOL. , Inc., as Director of Systems Engineering for the Sun-Netscape Alliance (Sun-Netscape Alliance, Santa Clara, CA) A joint venture of Sun and Netscape to market Netscape's Web-based software products. The Alliance was formed when AOL acquired Netscape in 1999 to take advantage of the fact that the bulk of Netscape software was already running on Sun hardware. government sales group. While at Netscape, he played a key role in the decision to release source code for Netscape Communicator, and was appointed one of three Netscape Fellows. He is currently a member of mozilla.org, the organization managing the open source development of the Mozilla Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . - Jason Robbins joined Collab.Net to lead its next Project, codenamed Tigris. Robbins is a recognized force in the Open Source community as head of the ArgoUML Open Source project, a software design tool using the Unified Modeling Language See UML. (language) Unified Modeling Language - (UML) A non-proprietary, third generation modelling language. The Unified Modeling Language is an open method used to specify, visualise, construct and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software-intensive system notation. Launched in 1998, the ArgoUML project today includes more than 19,000 registered users and over 150 developers. Robbins has authored more than 20 conference and journal publications on a variety of topics including evolutionary software development, usability and UI design techniques, knowledge-based design tools, software architecture, end-user programming and software reuse. &uot;Collab.Net is enabling a truly global collaborative development environment founded on Open Source software concepts,&uot; added Behlendorf. &uot;As more and more organizations rely on Open Source solutions, we are creating new market opportunities for both developers as well as corporations. Augmenting the Collab.Net team will help strengthen those alliances and bolster the value of Open Source to these communities.&uot; RECENT COLLAB.NET MILESTONES The appointment of Barry, Hecker and Robbins follows several significant milestones for Collab.Net. In December, Collab.Net announced completion of its beta test phase and entered production of its first service, sourceXchange -- www.sourcexchange.com -- a marketplace that matches Open Source developers with organizations seeking technical expertise for various well-defined Open Source projects. Companies that have placed RFPs [request for proposals] at sourceXchange include Hewlett-Packard, Novell, Ricoh, Galactic Marketing, Sparks.com, and Walnut Creek CDROM Walnut Creek CDROM (Walnut Creek, California) was an early provider of freeware, shareware and free software on CD-ROMs. The company was founded in August 1991 by Bob Bruce and was one of the first commercial distributors of free software on CD-ROMs. . Earlier in August 1999, Collab.Net named Bill Portelli 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. . Portelli, the former Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. Worldwide Consulting Services, brings forth his extensive leadership abilities along with strong technical and business background to successfully align developers as well as corporations sharing the goal of promoting Open Source development and market share. ABOUT COLLAB.NET Collab.Net is distilling the essential processes of the Open Source community and providing tools and services that facilitate predictable, well-organized, high value open source development. The company's first service, sourceXchange, is a marketplace where Open Source developers match their expertise to committed buyers with well defined, financially backed Open Source projects. Collab.Net also provides an infrastructure of hosting services and productivity tools to facilitate collaborative software development among a worldwide community of developers. In addition, Collab.Net provides an extensive array of consulting services which help guide companies into Open Source markets. Collab.Net was founded in July 1999 by Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation (open source, body) Apache Software Foundation - (ASF) An umbrella consortium that manages the development of the Apache web server, dozens of XML- and Java-based projects (under the name Jakarta), the Ant build tool, the Geronimo J2EE server, the SpamAssassin anti-SPAM tool, and , and O'Reilly &Associates. For more information, see www.collab.net |
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