Craig Burton

Google challenges SourceForge in open source project hosting: "

Google announced today at OSCON, the O’Reilly open source conference, that it has launched an open source project hosting site that will rival SourceForge.net. The service has been given the unglamorous name Google Code Project Hosting.

Early comments around the web highlight the need for a competitor to SourceFourge.net, which is believed to experience too much down time and emphasize enterprise users at the expense of others. SourceForge.net runs on the propriety SourceForge software and is owned by Freemont California’s VA Software.

Projects hosted by Google are organized by tag and includes an ajax feedback and issue tracking. They system is built on Subversion and Google’s Big Table file system. Projects can be up to 100mb in size. The reliability of

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This is curious. Google isn't really a credible open source vendor. It will be interesting to watch and see if they can pull it off. Imagine Google as a stumbling giant. Nimbleness is not a forte anymore. Such a shift requires the ability to turn on a dime. No longer a Google luxury. Let's