SourceForge acquires Ohloh to target ads at open source coders
SourceForge, the public company whose properties include code repository SourceForge.net and tech news site Slashdot, announced today that it’s acquiring Ohloh, a community and database for open source programmers. This is SourceForge’s first acquisition since 2000.
Bellevue, Wash.-based Ohloh says it has compiled the world’s largest directory of open source projects and coders (more than 300,000 each, gathered from 3,500 websites). Ohloh also ranks those coders based on the importance of their contributions to major open… Continue Reading
Appcelerator launches open source platform for desktop apps
Appcelerator, a Mountain View, Calif. startup that that builds open source tools to ease the development of web applications, is now offering a platform called Titanium for creating hybrid web/desktop applications for your computer and mobile phone. The company also announced a first venture round of $4.1 million.
The obvious precedent here is Adobe AIR, a technology used by companies like The New York Times to build desktop applications that pull data from the web but… Continue Reading
DeviceVM’s ‘instant on’ software gets another $15M
DeviceVM, a company that allows you to use your computer while it’s booting up, has raised another $15 million in funding.
The San Jose, Calif. company’s software is called Splashtop, and it comes preinstalled on PCs and motherboards. When those PCs are turned on, or when users hit a special key, they can use Splashtop within a few seconds to check their email, chat with friends, get on the Internet and more. (See screenshot below.) Although… Continue Reading
Open Source Business Conference: Great, we won. So what did we win?
Open source has gone mainstream, but now what?
That’s what I asked leading open source investor Larry Augustin (pictured left; he founded VA Linux, SourceForge, and backed many more) and Harold Goldberg, chief executive of Zend, at the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference, which just wrapped up.
All the evidence suggested open source has arrived: This year, some 40 percent of the conference came from the IT departments of large, traditional tech companies, Goldberg estimated — far… Continue Reading