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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Sabir Bhatia (Sabeer Bhatia), which gained fame in 1997, after selling Microsoft for $ 400 million online mail service Hotmail, says that the new service an even greater commercial potential. He made a bid for a set of online business applications that must compete with similar products of Microsoft and Google.
The company from Bangalore Collaboration Software Technologies (InstaColl), which is co-founder Bhatia, has opened an online service Live Documents, which allows to store and edit documents, as well as work together on them through any Web browser that supports Adobe Flash, and on any operating system.
The documents and work offline using additional client-add-on program for Microsoft Office, which ensures that online teamwork. When a user connects to the network, Live Documents synchronizes documents.
For individual users of the service, which is currently in the beta stage limited, will be free, but businesses will have to pay a subscription or purchase a license to install software on the server. In Live Documents applied technology Adobe Flash and Flex-company claims that they work better online Google applications, which it calls a truncated version of Microsoft Office. And Microsoft will not sacrifice its business box software, to offer a full range of online office applications, which gives a chance to market participants such as InstaColl.
InstaColl aims at the market for office, which for this year is estimated at $ 20 billion, and the market for teamwork. The company decided to offer the service free of charge for personal use to publicize it. Now when working in offline it supports only Microsoft Office, but in the coming months InstaColl promises to add support for OpenOffice.org. At the same time the company plans to release its own desktop client to work with documents in the offline.