The new company created Cloudsmith site, which provides developers access to a "virtual" distributions, or specialized software configuration of open source, as well as the possibility of sharing.
Service, which is currently in beta, does not keep any code, but only information about where are the various components of a certain distribution. It also offers tools for collecting and assemblirovaniya individual components. The purpose Cloudsmith significantly accelerate and facilitate the process of creating open-source distributions.
One of the first users became Cloudsmith Eteration located in the Turkish and German company, which creates Lomboz, applications development tool Java- open source. Lomboz Customers often request the company to prepare a special distribution optimized for their infrastructure. "Many of our customers to combine with other technologies open-source to write their own applications, they can select servers Apache, use the portal OW2 etc.," explains Chief Eteration Nachi Dai (Naci Dai). - The site Cloudsmith allowed us to collect configuration preferred by our users in the form of virtual distributions. To update all configuration, enough virtual distro update ... We hope that, over time, this approach will be the only way to build and spread of our software, it will depend on customer feedback. "
Cloudsmith Business model is under development. As long as the services are provided free of charge, but at the end of the beta period Cloudsmith will offer subscription model for those customers who wish to share information only with certain other users.
Services Cloudsmith not targeted at Tech, and the programmers. The biggest concern at the moment they are the developers Eclipse. "We love this community," said Director General Cloudsmith Mitch Souniz (Mitch Sonies). "But in the very near future, we will take measures to demonstrate that we are not committed to any one technology."
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Actually, Cloudsmith is not so much a directory, but a map of both open source and closed source components available world wide in publicly accessible and proprietary repositories. Distros which include one or more closed source components, licensed from some vendor, are restricted to a private cloud accessible only within that vendors firewall and/or by its licensed customers; distros which contain only open source components are available to everyone worldwide.
A distro can of course be defined in terms of one or more other distros: derivative distros are possible and are encouraged. It is really easy to define a new distro -- take the test drive at the Cloudsmith home page, and try it out yourself -- and share it with others whom you think may be interested in what you have done..
A distro can be represented as a "cloudlink", a URL which can be used in a blog or email or whatever. Clicking on a cloudlink "materialises" the associated distro, and installs the graph of components onto a target machine, of course taking care of dependency and versioning details.
Its pretty easy to add your own components to the Cloudsmith map; to define new distros; and to share and search for interesting new distros.
Have fun - and be productive - with Cloudsmith.
Best
Chris
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