SourceForge.net Supports 100,000 Developers in First Year of Service.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2001 World's Largest ASP for Open Source Development Expands Infrastructure, Partners with ibiblio.org Online Library Open Source Development Network (OSDN OSDN Open Source Development Network OSDN Open Source Developer Network .com), a division of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LNUX), today announced that SourceForge.net, the world's largest ASP for Open Source developers, now supports over 100,000 registered users. Since its official launch exactly one year ago, SourceForge.net has expanded its base of supported projects to more than 13,000, including major projects such as MySQL, Tcl, Python Python, in Greek mythology Python, in Greek mythology, a huge serpent. In some myths the infant Apollo slew Python at the oracle of Gaea in Delphi; in others Apollo killed the serpent in order to claim the oracle for himself. , XFree86, KDE (K Desktop Environment) A GUI-based user interface primarily for Unix and Linux machines, but also available for Windows and Mac. The source code is freely distributed and is maintained by developers around the world. and Squid. To accommodate the rapid expansion of SourceForge.net, OSDN has added significant resources to the site, including additional personnel, bandwidth and VA Linux servers and storage systems. SourceForge.net's user base has grown at an average rate of more than 30% per month. Further, SourceForge.net has entered into a collaborative agreement with University of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. -- Chapel Hill's online library, ibiblio (www.ibiblio.org), which will serve as a mirror and partial ftp site A server on the Internet that maintains files for downloading. An FTP site may be one or more servers or just one or two folders dedicated to file transfer on a single server. See FTP and anonymous FTP. for SourceForge.net. With its roots in the former SunSITE (SunSITE.unc.edu) and MetaLab (MetaLab.unc.edu), ibiblio.org has historically played a key role in helping to expand and improve the archiving of information on the Internet, with a significant library of Linux and Open Source software. "The rapid growth of SourceForge.net during its first year of service demonstrates the growing popularity of the Open Source development model across a wide range of platforms, as well as the popularity of the SourceForge toolset," said John "Tiberius" Hall, vice president of strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , VA Linux Systems. "By working with ibiblio, we hope to further improve SourceForge.net's ability to catalog, archive and distribute Open Source software and documentation." "The compatibility of the goals and key directions of SourceForge.net and ibiblio, as well as complementary research and service interests, make this relationship a great boost for the Open Source Community," said ibiblio.org director Paul Jones Paul Jones can refer to:
About ibiblio.org ibiblio.org, the public's library, is home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet. ibiblio is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain, a non-profit foundation, and the University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (www.unc.edu) with institutional support from the School of Information and Library Science, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Office of the Vice Chancellor vice chancellor n. Abbr. VC 1. A deputy or an assistant chancellor in a university. 2. A deputy to or a substitute for a head of state or an official bearing the title chancellor. 3. for Information Technology. Founded in 1992 as sunsite.unc.edu and known more recently as MetaLab.unc.edu, ibiblio.org was one of the first sites on the World Wide Web. ibiblio.org is the home of the Linux Documentation Project (project) Linux Documentation Project - (LDP) A team of volunteers developing documentation for the Linux operating system. The LDP aims to handle all of the issues of Linux documentation, ranging from on-line documentation to printed manuals, covering topics such as installing, (www.linuxdoc.org) as well as a variety of other information sharing See data conferencing. projects. About OSDN OSDN (Open Source Development Network), a division of VA Linux Systems, Inc., is the leading Linux and Open Source destination on the Internet. OSDN is a network and community outreach organization committed to accelerating Open Source software development, which also serves as a gateway for individuals and organizations worldwide to understand and join this revolution. Serving over 80 million page impressions to more than 3 million users each month, OSDN includes the leading Open Source sites for news, information and discussion (Slashdot, NewsForge and Linux.com), the largest sites for collaborative Open Source development and support (SourceForge.net and QuestionExchange), the most popular sites for Open Source software distribution (Freshmeat.net and Themes.org), online shopping for technical enthusiasts (ThinkGeek), a new print publication (Open magazine), and community discussion forums and personalized content on the beta site An organization or group that is beta testing hardware and/or software. See beta test. for OSDN.com. Certain statements in this press release, including statements about future growth related to SourceForge.net, are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different from expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of VA Linux and OSDN to attract and retain qualified personnel to perform software development; results of SourceForge.net and ibiblio.org's collaborative efforts; industry trends related to Open Source and Linux; and other risks detailed in VA Linux's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which may be accessed through the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov. Note: VA Linux Systems, "Open Source Development Network (OSDN)," SourceForge, Slashdot, Freshmeat, QuestionExchange, ThinkGeek and NewsForge are trademarks of VA Linux Systems, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. . All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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