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SourceForge Grows Up - and Out |
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Source: LinuxInsider - Posted by Administrator
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SourceForge is keenly aware of its roots in the open source community, and its strategies for growth encompass ways to better serve its base. Among its goals are a transformation of the Sourceforge.net Web site into "a world-class development environment," said Jon Sobel, SourceForge's group president of media.
SourceForge, a media services and e-commerce company that provides open source software downloads and development, is enjoying the best of both business worlds. It is one of the largest open source software repositories -- the SourceForge Web site has more than 30 million unique visitors per month -- and it reported more than US$40 million in earnings for its last quarter, with no outstanding debt.
Still, the company has no desire to rest on its laurels. Instead, it is pressing ahead with a makeover to become more useful to the open source community.
In March, SourceForge inked a deal with the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of the Linux operating system. That arrangement set the stage for more collaboration with open source developers and software users.
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