OpenAvenue Acquires CodeCatalog and Cyclic.com from SourceGear
Specialized Search Engine and Popular CVS Community Extend Functionality and Reach of Open-Source Service Provider's Innovative Infrastructure
Scotts Valley, CA -- Paul Hessinger, chairman and chief executive officer of OpenAvenue, Inc., today announced that the company has acquired CodeCatalog and Cyclic.com from SourceGear Corporation. 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. SourceGear is a leader in the Linux community and a vendor of Internet products and services for software developers.
A Web-based open-source code search engine, CodeCatalog (www.codecatalog.com) provides a fast reference tool to search and browse a source code repository which currently contains more than 20 million lines of open-source code from Linux, Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, and others. All of the most popular open-source projects are represented, searchable, browsable, and cross-referenced against each other. CodeCatalog is built upon a variety of open source technologies, including Linux. OpenAvenue will integrate CodeCatalog into its OAsis? infrastructure.
"Finally, there is an easy way for software developers to harvest the vast resources of open source code," said Jayson Minard, OpenAvenue co-founder and chief technology officer. "CodeCatalog makes open source code accessible to a larger audience."
According to hacker and industry guru, Eric S. Raymond, "We've needed a good catalog system for open-source software for some time. Based on what I've seen, I have high hopes for CodeCatalog."
OpenAvenue also acquired SourceGear's Cyclic.com, a popular Web destination for developers using the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), the leading version control tool for open-source developers. OpenAvenue will further SourceGear's initiative to support the open community development of CVS, work to enhance its functionality, and remain committed to its status as free software. "Thousands of developers visit Cyclic.com each week to get CVS and the information they need to help them use it," said Eric Sink, SourceGear founder and chief executive officer. "I am pleased that under OpenAvenue's stewardship, CVS will continue to grow and enhance its momentum as the most popular tool for open source developers."
About OpenAvenue
OpenAvenue is an open-source service provider (OSP?). 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, with a core of hosted content, 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 of open source authors, shareware developers, freeware contributors, independent software vendors (ISVs) and IT consulting organizations with applications that can benefit from community participation.
OpenAvenue can be found online at openavenue.com.
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