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Wednesday February 2, 8:01 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: OpenAvenue
OpenAvenue Launches OpenAvenue.com Powered by OAsis(TM)
Open-Source Service Provider (OSP(TM)) to Drive OpenIndustry(TM) With Innovative Global Collaborative Infrastructure
Site, Infrastructure Chosen by Centura Software Corporation for Critical Open-Source Project
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Paul Hessinger, chairman and chief executive officer of OpenAvenue, today announced the beta launch of OpenAvenue.com, an open-source hosting site, and OAsis (OpenAvenue Source Infrastructure System), its global collaborative infrastructure. OpenAvenue is a privately-held, business-to-business company specializing in Web-based hosting, management, and distribution of worldwide collaborative software development projects. OpenAvenue hosts application development content provided by individual and corporate content owners, and makes it available to a worldwide community of software developers under open-source, community-based, and private licensing.
OAsis provides the underlying technologies and services that power OpenAvenue.com. OAsis is a Web-based infrastructure of productivity tools and services designed to enable collaboration among a worldwide community of developers who come to OpenAvenue for project participation and knowledge-sharing. This infrastructure operates as a distributed, highly-accessible Web development environment, featuring:
High-bandwidth domain hosting for open-source projects
Life cycle management tools and services
Knowledge and collaboration framework
``The open-source development model has proved to be successful, but open-source developers have lacked the sophisticated infrastructure that developers in more traditional environments utilize to improve productivity and automate routine tasks,' said Jim Sinur, Vice President and Research Director at GartnerGroup. ``This kind of infrastructure is necessary to make open-source development more practical and, as a result, more attractive for use by larger organizations.(1)'
Additionally, Hessinger announced that Centura Software Corporation ( www.centurasoft.com ) has selected OpenAvenue.com as the site on which it will opensource its db.linux(TM) open-source data management project. Centura Software Corporation (Nasdaq: CNTR - news) is a leading provider of e-business and Information Appliance (IA) databases and development solutions.
``OpenAvenue's OAsis makes it possible for us to confidently pursue the strategic decision to opensource our db.linux database management solution,' said Scott Broomfield, Centura chairman and CEO. ``A critical part of our initiative was to secure a reliable infrastructure to enable our community of developers and users to collaborate on a high-performance embedded database, further igniting the Information Appliance and mobile computing space.'
OAsis: OpenAvenue's Global Collaborative Infrastructure
Hosting Services
OAsis provides content owners with high-bandwidth domain hosting for all
forms of shared development projects, both public and private. Services
include:
Hosting of source code and documentation
Site administration services, such as back-up, refresh, etc.
e-mail accounts; mailing lists for project owners and core team
FTP facilities with unlimited disk space
``Sand boxes' for servlets and other applications
Application server support: Zope, PHP3 and ASP
Web server support: Apache, Xitami, and IIS
Database access: MySQL
Life Cycle Management
Project owners are able to specify and enforce access rules for projects while allowing submissions from contributors. Project publishing capability allows project owners to publish a baseline, or snapshot in time, of the source code for community members to browse and download via their browser. A set of Web-based tools is provided to support the ``submission model' used by open-source developers for application development and maintenance, including: version control for check-in and check-out; baselines for application development; and defect tracking.
Knowledge and Collaboration Framework
OAsis can support any number of discussion groups linked with projects. Users and foragers of project information are able to browse all projects by category and with project keyword searching. Code browsing features include color syntax highlighting of language keywords, comments, strings, and numbers for VB, C/C++, and Java. OAsis will also facilitate reuse by providing extensive source code search capability, making it fast and easy for developers to search through millions of lines of code from the most popular open-source projects, including Linux, Apache, Mozilla, GNOME, and many others.
About Centura Software
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., Centura is a leading provider of secure embedded database, connectivity and development solutions for the Information Appliance (IA) and e-Business (EB) markets. Centura's product offerings address the growing demand for complete and secure integration capabilities, which enable successful mobile computing. Developers and IT decision makers worldwide have relied on Centura's rich and innovative technology offerings and its world-class professional services since 1984. The company integrates their solutions in various business systems worldwide including the healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications and financial industries. Centura has 19 offices worldwide, including locations in North America, Latin America, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. For more information about Centura, visit centurasoft.com .
About OpenAvenue
OpenAvenue is an Open-Source Service Provider (OSP(TM)). OpenAvenue.com is a site for hosting open source development projects. OAsis (OpenAvenue Source Infrastructure System) is a Web-based infrastructure of productivity tools and services designed to facilitate collaboration among a worldwide community of developers who come to OpenAvenue for project participation and knowledge-sharing. Software and knowledgebase content is made available by an OpenIndustry(TM) of open source authors, shareware developers, freeware contributors, independent software vendors (ISVs) and IT consulting organizations with applications that can benefit from community participation.
How To Reach OpenAvenue
OpenAvenue can be found online at openavenue.com .
(1) GartnerGroup / Jim Sinur / February 2000
For more information, contact Ray Evans of OpenAvenue, 831-440-1725, ext. 47, or revans@openavenue.com.
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