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LinuxBox Joins with OpenAvenue to Create the Leading Portal for Open-Source
Development Projects
OpenAvenue Now Becomes the World's Largest Portal Devoted to Hosting and
Managing Open-Source and Community-Based Software Development Projects
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenAvenue Inc., a privately
held, WEB-based company located in Scotts Valley, California, and LinuxBox, a
leading hosting facility for open-source projects, today announced that LinuxBox has
joined OpenAvenue. LinuxBox has become part of the OpenAvenue portal while still
preserving its brand and operational capabilities. In addition, the founders of LinuxBox
are joining the OpenAvenue corporate structure in charge of community management
for all Linux open-source projects.
''We are confident that this will benefit the open-source community since our site has
always been highly supported by the Linux community, but lacked commercial support
to make it viable in the long term,'' stated Chris Gann, founder of LinuxBox.
''OpenAvenue has deployed what we believe to be a superior infrastructure for our site,
providing a more stable environment for our developer and contributor community with
increased hosting capacity. Moreover, OpenAvenue and LinuxBox share the belief that
software development projects conducted under open-source and community-based
licensing are creating a huge transformation in the software industry, a transformation
that needs to be supported while it keeps gaining critical mass.''
OpenAvenue (http://www.openavenue.com) hosts application development content
provided by individual and corporate content owners, and makes it available to a
world-wide community of software developers under open-source, community-based
and private licensing. As the projects hosted by LinuxBox (http://www.linuxbox.com)
are incorporated into OpenAvenue and added to the hundreds already in the process of
being hosted, the portal becomes the most comprehensive portal in hosting open-source
and community based software development projects.
''OpenAvenue will fully support the needs of the Linux open-source community,
continually improving the services and support that LinuxBox users have come to
enjoy,'' stated Jayson Minard, chief technology officer of OpenAvenue. ''In addition,
OpenAvenue will make new technologies freely available to the development community
to greatly enhance the productivity of open-source development.''
''Open-source has proven itself as a viable vehicle for software innovation and delivery,
and in the process has also proven that alternatives such as community-based software
projects, which were inspired by open-source, have broad potential as well,'' said
Carlos Caballero, president of OpenAvenue. ''We want to make sure that the years of
pioneering effort that went into making LinuxBox a leader in open-source projects is
preserved, and furthermore that the LinuxBox community continues to thrive in the
world-class facilities of OpenAvenue. Management anticipates that OpenAvenue will be
hosting an abundant array of related projects and applications in the LinuxBox section of
the portal.''
OpenAvenue delivers a tightly integrated system sustaining the development cycle from
code check-in to running automated builds and tests, providing greater control for the
''owners'' of a project while maintaining the freedom for random submissions from the
contributors.
About OpenAvenue
OpenAvenue is a privately held, WEB-based company located in Scotts Valley,
California, specializing in the hosting, management and distribution of world-wide
collaborative software development projects. OpenAvenue hosts application
development content provided by individual and corporate content owners, and makes
it available to a world-wide community of software developers under open-source,
community-based and private licensing. StarBase Corporation (Nasdaq: SBAS -
news) is a founding partner of OpenAvenue. OpenAvenue's corporate portal can
be found online at openavenue.com.
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the software industry, (ii) the timely development and market acceptance of products
and technologies, (iii) competitive factors, (iv) demand for team productivity software
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OpenAvenue, LinuxBox and its product and services names are trademarks of
OpenAvenue, Inc. All other product and company names herein are trademarks of their
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SOURCE: OpenAvenue, Inc. |
