CodeZoo launched, SpikeSource blooms
O’Reilly associates have launched CodeZoo, an equivalent of Perl’s CPAN code repository for Java, in partnership with a promising enterprise Open Source startup.
Slashdot has a thread on this as well, with some useful comments. According to the launch announcement:
CodeZoo exists to help you find high-quality, freely available, reusable components, getting you past the repetitive parts of coding, and onto the rest and the best of your projects.
It looks like CodeZoo will aggregate the wealth of Java related material that appeared in ONJava and other O’Reillynet subportals in the past. I can only hope it will prove as accessible as CPAN (but better organised). Well done, folks!
O’Reilly are partnering on CodeZoo with SpikeSource, the new enterprise Open Source startup, recently emerged from incubation, whose boss, Kim Polese, received Dan Farber’s overzealous endorsement for the position of the next OSI president. SpikeSource is banking on offering services and support to promote Open Source interoperability and it’s board reads like an Open Source All-Stars team. Among other members:
Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache Web server software project and CollabNet firm for aiding software development; Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation; Marten Mickos, CEO of database seller MySQL; Tim O’Reily of O’Reilly Media; Lawrence Rosen, an attorney who has advised the Open Source Initiative; Dirk Hohndel, director of Intel’s Linux and open-source strategy;[..] Steven Weber, a political science professor at the University of California-Berkeley.
Small wonder that the company became an overnight IT media darling!
