CollabNet Acquires Alphanumerica, Inc.; Combining Collaborative Software Development With Web Application Development.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2000 CollabNet(TM), a leading provider of collaborative software This is a list of collaborative software (or list of groupware) applications. Wiki software is on a list of wiki software. Open source or free software The following are open source or free software applications. development platforms and services based on open source tools and principles, today announced it has acquired Alphanumerica, Inc., a Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. firm based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The combined company will be called CollabNet. "We believe our two companies share a common vision for creating the next generation of global, collaborative software development environments. Alphanumerica has a track record of outstanding success both with its customers and with the open source community, particularly with their strong leadership and sophisticated project management processes," said 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. , CollabNet. "By combining CollabNet's expertise in collaborative development practices with Alphanumerica's background in Web site and Web application development, we will truly be able to offer our customers rapid implementation of new Web-based software development environments." Founded in 1997, Alphanumerica uses a proven approach to Web site development based on open source practices and industry standards for technical project management, as well as certain processes, technologies and techniques developed in-house. Alphanumerica is already a well-known player in the open source community. Over the past year, the firm has gained recognition for its commitment of significant resources to 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. project. In addition, Alphanumerica also sponsored the first two Mozilla Developer Meetings, which brought together Mozilla developers from around the world. Other Alphanumerica customers include: Netscape, The Alan Guttmacher Alan Frank Guttmacher (1898-1974) was an American physician. He served as president of Planned Parenthood and vice-president of the American Eugenics Society, founded the Association for the Study of Abortion in 1964, was a member of the Association for Voluntary Institute, The Brooklyn Public Library Coordinates: The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), is the public library system of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is the fifth largest public library system in the United States. and Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group. "Alphanumerica's philosophy has centered around seamlessly integrating design and technology to meet our customers needs, using open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and open source technologies," said Joshua Lerner, co-founder and CEO of Alphanumerica. "CollabNet is quickly becoming recognized as a company that is advancing the collaborative development processes that are at the core of the open source model. Because of the numerous synergies between our companies, we saw it as a natural extension of our business to merge with CollabNet." Alphanumerica is already working with CollabNet on building collaborative software development environments for Sun's OpenOffice.org and Oracle's OTN OTN Oracle Technology Network OTN Optical Transport Network (Cienna) OTN On The Net OTN Open Transport Network (Apple) OTN Oncology Therapeutics Network OTN On That Note OTN Optical Network Terminal Xchange, and has been instrumental in building out several new online communities including the recently re-launched CollabNet and SourceXchange sites. "This is an exciting opportunity for our companies to join together in developing the integrated Web infrastructure that will spur a new wave of collaborative software development," said Kerry Fitzpatrick, co-founder and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Alphanumerica. "Our teams have already been working together for several months and we look forward to continuing to complete projects for current CollabNet customers, as well as taking on new challenges." About CollabNet CollabNet provides companies with tools and services for collaborative software development by combining open source community expertise with business excellence. CollabNet's offerings include: a developer marketplace, a collaborative development platform with lifecycle management capabilities, and consulting services to facilitate software development across a worldwide community. CollabNet is currently working with customers ranging from Application Service Providers (ASPs) to Internet firms, hardware and software providers to companies from industries such as marketing and publishing. 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 , founded CollabNet in July 1999. For more information, see www.collab.net. Note to Editors: CollabNet is a trademark and SourceXchange and SourceCast are service marks of CollabNet, Inc. Any other product brand names used are the property of their respective owners. |
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