Press Release
CollabNet powers Japanese Open Source Community
Collaborative Development Platform Helps Japan Grow as Center of Asian Open Source Development
BRISBANE, Calif., April 18, 2005 — CollabNet, the leading provider of on-demand distributed software development solutions, today announced the Open Source Collaboration Joint Network (http://www.OSCJ.net/), a new community to host Japanese open source software projects, has selected CollabNet as their enabling technology supplier. OSCJ.net is an open source ecosystem designed to foster the development of free and open source software between Japanese businesses. The OSCJ.net environment is based on CollabNet® Enterprise Edition, a powerful collaborative development environment that addresses the needs of globally distributed software development team across the application development life-cycle, and is supported by Ten Art-ni.
Using the CollabNet environment, OSCJ.net members can collaborate on projects and exchange information on any number of open source projects. The CollabNet environment integrates applications for software development, project management, knowledge management, and communication management. The CollabNet environment is available on-demand, as a managed service, greatly reducing administration and infrastructure costs.
"CollabNet is excited to be working with Ten-Art-ni on a project that will benefit the entire open source community in Japan," said Brian Behlendorf, founder and CTO of CollabNet. "We bring a collaboration platform to OSCJ.net that is proven to scale to the needs of large, diverse, multilingual software developer communities. We believe strongly that such a platform can help trigger collaboration amongst the different open source projects in Japan."
"We expect the productivity of development and collaboration Asian open source projects will be drastically enlarged with the power and security of the CollabNet environment," said Nobuo Kita, CEO of Ten Art-ni Corporation, a sponsor of this new community.
The CollabNet environment provides the ideal platform for open source and distributed development because it is methodology neutral yet responds to the development needs common among all programming methodologies. It increases developer efficiency and productivity by providing a universal development environment that does not force users to conform to rigid, tool-imposed processes, but rather allows them to take advantage of their individual skill sets and personalized development practices.
"We expect that CollabNet will spur active efforts by the open source software community in Japan and that the development of open source software will be accelerated. SGI Japan, Ltd. is fully committed to this great activity," said Norio Izumi, CEO of SGI Japan, Ltd, a strong advocate of Japanese open source projects and one of the sponsoring companies of the OSCJ.net community.
In addition to CollabNet, SGI Japan, and Ten Art-ni, O’Reilly Japan and TechStyle Co. LTD are leading sponsors of the OSCJ.net community.
