Tim Perdue on GForge & Building SourceForge

Steve Mallett writes "I've just posted an interview I did with Tim Perdue, former co-'head honcho' responsible for developing SourceForge. You'll either love it or hate the interview, but it's on his new project GForge, a fork of the previously open source code running SF, while he shares some insight in what seems like a miracle that SourceForge was built at all." Obviously Slashdot's parent runs SourceForge, so insert whatever mental disclaimer and conspiracy theory you want here.

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[DAldredge]

It looks like VA Software doesn't want to devote any resources to ANY of their projects. That would explain why SF had to run on reject hardware and why /. can hire someone to be an editor/dup checker.

[ This Is Great News for Managers ]

[ekrout]

I recently went to the main VA Software Web site (http://www.vasoftware.com). As most of us know, VAS owns SourceForge, a site for collaborative, Internet-based development of projects.

However, many folks don't quite understand that SourceForge-like software such as GForge, which this article features, can be used to develop products that commercial businesses may sell. SourceForge-like software development works out really great for developers, managers, and in turn for customers who end up with highly-polished, top-notch software programs.

I tried out a cost calculator at the collaborative software development site and entered in some typical business figures (10 developers total, each making about $50,000 per year). It returned the following:

Your Results

Your organization is experiencing excessive productivity loss due to inadequate Development Intelligence, which means that you are at the higher end of the loss scale. Companies with similar characteristics suffer productivity losses between 10-15%. Based on your development costs, this means a loss between $55,000 and $82,500 per year.

Contact a SourceForge representative to learn how to evaluate your organization and how SourceForge can help you increase productivity by making development more intelligent.

The above is a SourceForge-specific example, but it of course can be applied to GForge and other groupware/collaborative products.

The bottom line is that many companies, in hard economic times such as these, could use software like this to really improve their bottom line. Sure, it could be developed in-house, but why not use a great product like GForge and start seeing the cash roll-in today?

(Congrats to Tim Perdue for the information about GForge, a true up-and-coming OSS product of great value.)

In soviet russia...

[Anonymous Coward]

...the source forges you!

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[King of the World]

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