Collab.net Grants Open Source Developer's Wishes Through Sourcexchange Marketplace; O'Reilly & Associates and Collab.Net Team to Sponsor First "Wish" Project.Business Editors and Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000 Collab.Net, a leading provider of collaborative services for emerging open source software markets, today announced the newest program on its sourceXchange marketplace -- a "wish granting" project for open source developers. Collab.Net's sourceXchange marketplace is the premier B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business exchange for financing and managing open source software development over the Internet. One of the founding visions of sourceXchange was to ensure the continual creation of tools that support the open source development process. Collab.Net is launching three specific initiatives on sourceXchange to meet this objective: sponsoring our own RFPs (Request For Proposals), regularly funding wishes from the sourceXchange community and providing an opportunity for our partners and sponsors to fund RFPs from the wish list. Collab.Net is currently sponsoring two projects on sourceXchange. The first project is an application that will allow users to view Web-based mailing list An automated e-mail system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new archives. The second project is a system for helping developers to assess the complexity of source code based on standard metrics. Both projects are under development and will be available under open source licences. Developers with ideas for open source projects can go to sourceXchange and post them under the Wishes Section. Periodically, Collab.Net will review the list and picks several projects that it is interested in sponsoring. RFPs are created by the sourceXchange community and the project is developed though the normal sourceXchange model. At the O'Reilly Conference on Java in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , CA, attendees were given the opportunity to submit an RFP (Request For Proposal) A document that invites a vendor to submit a bid for hardware, software and/or services. It may provide a general or very detailed specification of the system. 1. (business) RFP - Request for Proposal. 2. for a Java application A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. to be sponsored by O'Reilly & Associates on Collab.Net's sourceXchange marketplace. The winning project, "E-Commerce Components," was submitted by Chris O'Neill and chosen by a panel of industry leaders as the technology to be developed. The panel included: Bill Day, Technology Evangelist Not to be confused with televangelist. A technical or technology evangelist is a person whose job or role is to promote technologies, usually new technologies. at Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. ; Jason Hunter, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of K&A Software and author of the book Java Servlet See servlet. (World-Wide Web) Java servlet - (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. Programming; and Anne Thomas Manes manes (mā`nēz), in Roman religion, spirits of the dead. Originally, they were called di manes, a collective divinity of the dead. Manes could also refer to the realm of the dead and, later, to the individual souls of the dead. , Director of Business Strategy for Sun Software and formerly with Patricia Seybold Group. The E-Commerce Components project will consist of a group of servlets, which provide the tools needed to accept secure credit card transactions over the Internet. These include: real-time authorization, voids, returns, settlement and other payment management capabilities. Since the E-Commerce Component project is being created under the sourceXchange model, it will be distributed under an open source license, ensuring open access to the resulting code. Java and open source developers will then be able to include this code in their own software applications, as well as have the option of extending and modifying the components to meet their particular e-commerce needs. "As part of our ongoing support of open source development, we're excited to be sponsoring this project with Collab.Net," said Tim O'Reilly This article is about the founder of O'Reilly Media. For the musician, see Tim O'Reilly (musician). Tim O'Reilly (Irish: Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh, 1954-) was born in Cork, Ireland. , 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. and founder O'Reilly & Associates. "Bringing the sourceXchange process to the O'Reilly Conference on Java gave the attendees a unique real-time opportunity to submit ideas and see the winning project, E-Commerce Components, get immediate funding. It's a dramatic example of how sourceXchange has extended the open source model and made it possible for more users to get in the development loop." "Making selections from the sourceXchange Wish Program and finding corporate sponsors for them is something Collab.Net has wanted to do since we launched the site," said Brian Behlendorf, co-founder and CTO of Collab.Net. "We know that many of the best ideas for high-value open source tools come directly from our developer community and we look forward to helping developers turn these ideas into useful software. The E-Commerce Component project will allow the world-wide Java and open source development communities to have full access to the source code for the critical e-commerce components needed to conduct secure Internet transactions." About Collab.Net Collab.Net is a leader in creating new open source markets by combining open source community expertise with business excellence. By utilizing the essential collaborative processes of the open source community, Collab.Net supplies customers with products and services that facilitate well-organized, open source development. Collab.Net provides a developer marketplace, hosting services with development lifecycle management capabilities and professional services to facilitate collaborative, open source software development among a worldwide community of developers. Customers using Collab.Net open source services include ASP and Internet firms, hardware and software providers, as well as companies from industries such as marketing and publishing. 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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