User: sshir

Sounds like NCBI core libraries (c & c++)

On: Competitive Cross-Platform Development?

Portable to all kinds of unixes, windows, mac, etc. Supported to some extent.
Very widely used in biotechnology community.
All the stuff is open source and is a "public property"
Makefiles management included.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IEB/ToolBox/index.cgi