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The Open Source Zone

Recently updated projects

Name Description Updated
Apache Tcl Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts. These projects combine the power of the Apache web server with the capabilities of the mature, robust and flexible Tcl scripting language. 19 Apr 2008
EmForge EmForge is a J2EE-based, Open-Source, Workflow-Based integrated solution for managing software development process. Our target is to provide easy to use (on the one hand) and flexible (on the other hand) solution for software-development teams. Key ... 10 Apr 2008
Codeorama Software The first brazilian webos with calendar, google maps, youtube, weather, calculator, text editor, post it, portfolio, photos, awards and more. 04 Apr 2008
adsf untangle is tangled smack selfs 29 Mar 2008
JTrac JTrac is an open source and highly customizable issue-tracking web-application written in Java. Features: Add custom fields and drop downs Customizable workflow Field-level permissions Detailed history view E-mail notifications File attachments Se... 22 Jan 2008

Recently updated companies

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Concursive Corporation Concursive's mission is to help our customers—both large and small—better acquire, retain, service and sell to their customers. We accomplish this by assisting organizations in deploying true enterprise-class, open source, customer-management systems... 08 Feb 2008
Bitrock BitRock makes open source software easier to use by providing a complete automated solution for Open Source Application Deployment. As long time open source users and contributors, we believe that open source solutions are often more stable, more se... 13 Dec 2007
Untangle: Open Source Security Gateway Untangle is an open source security gateway for SMBs and the managed service providers that serve them. Untangle leverages more than 30 of the best open source projects (e.g., SpamAssassin, Snort, ClamAV, OpenVPN) to safeguard the network with applic... 02 Nov 2007
Vyatta Vyatta has changed the networking world by developing the first commercially supported, open-source secure routing solution.  Vyatta's Linux-based, open-source approach to routing, firewall and VPN offers flexible deployment options (x86 servers, bl... 03 Aug 2007
Lemur Consulting Ltd Lemur Consulting Limited is an award-winning search engine development company. With over ten years’ experience, Lemur specialises in all aspects of data management and is active in the development and support of many of today's leading information r... 15 Jun 2007

How many Open Source projects can you name? A handful? Maybe ten or twenty at the most. Those are the Open Source projects most people know because they have a high visibility and receive widespread publicity. But there are thousands and thousands of Open Source projects on the tail end.

– Matthew Langham, The Long Tail of Open Source.

If you are a developer looking for an Open Source library, framework or toolkit which might help you with your current project, there is probably something out there that fits your needs, if only you could find it.

Sure, there are some places like Freshmeat or SourceForge, that list a large number of products, but sometimes it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, to see which projects are alive rather than dormant or dead; which ones have a diverse, thriving community behind and which ones are basically one-man-jobs; which ones grew from real needs and which ones are simply abandonware products that some company decided to opensource rather than bury at the end of their lives.

The problem is that it's currently hard to find the correct project that suits your needs. But really that's only because someone hasn't come up with the Amazon type storefront and built that in front of the repositories, so you can search and find the project you may need. And even if the project is run by someone on a remote island on his own - who cares - it might be exactly what you were looking for to build that particular solution someone really needs.

The Open Source Zone's aim is to create a storefront for access to Open Source projects. The storefront will have the same level of participation that users give back to Amazon or iTunes by providing their personal feedback in form of reviews, ratings, comments, developers who liked this project also liked this other one.

Our intended audience is developers and we focus on infrastructure software: libraries, toolkits, frameworks and environments that can help a developer build applications quickly, reusing robust, tested and widely used components.