Google Gets Into Hosting
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Written By Reprise Media | July 28, 2006 | Share This
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Code heads now have an online project-hosting alternative to SourceForge.net, and it’s got Google written all over it. Announced yesterday at the O’Reilly Open Source CONference (OSCON), the excitingly named Google Code Project Hosting is live. Surprisingly, it isn’t in beta, although the FAQ says that it “may not have all features you want or need for your project” yet.
The service can handle project sizes up to 100 megs - open source only, please - and requires a Google account (although no authentication is necessary if you just want to search and browse code). It’s already hosting a number of projects.
The early feedback seems very cautiously optimistic. TechCrunch’s Marshall Kirkpatrick writes that Google is generally perceived to be more reliable than SourceForge, which is “believed to experience too much down time and emphasize enterprise users at the expense of others.” He cautions that “the whole thing looks far less user-friendly than SourceForge,” but that it may not matter as much to techies. Interesting theory…
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this is a pretty old project. it was named Google Code Project. I beleive its out of Beta now.
Sure, Google Code has been around since March ‘05, but the online project hosting service is new. And whenever we see a Google product that’s not in beta (no matter how old it is), we think it’s remarkable.
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