What Has Become of BeOpen.com?

avdi asks: "BeOpen.com was once one of the crop of promising free-software based dotcoms, basing their business on selling corporate support contracts for the open-source development tools they also maintained. They were even the center for Python development at one time. Now, however, Python has moved on; their web site is out of date; their supported software cannot be downloaded; and they are unreachable via email. So, has BeOpen.com silently gone the way of many other dotcoms in these hard economic times, and if so, what has/will become of the open-source software they once maintained?" I tried calling the contacts listed for BeOpen.Com, and the numbers for both the administrative and techical contacts were disconnected. Not good news for those interested in the site, but maybe the software projects they housed managed to find new homes. One can hope...

"I recently became interested in a couple of XEmacs-based open-source development tools, namely Infodock and OO-Browser. A quick search on Freshmeat directed me to a page at BeOpen to download these tools. The BeOpen page was simply the top-level of a Freshmeat-like open-source application directory; when I finally drilled down to the listings for Infodock and OO-Browser they directed me right back to Freshmeat. This despite the fact that BeOpen has some lengthy product pages providing overviews, contract prices, and documentation for these tools. Everything, in fact, except a link to the source tarballs. ftp.beopen.com was unavailable. Eventually I tried emailing them at one of the addresses listed on the product pages. The email bounced.

Does anyone know of other repositories where it can be found? Is there any other group who might take on maintenance of these, software packages?"

Comments

Both Infodock and OO-Browser now at sourceforge

[snoot]

There's files available for each:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/infodock/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oo-browser/

Some info at Linuxgram

[Cmdr. Marille]

not much but still:
http://www.linuxgram.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=108&ai d=12102