Bitrock on center stage with its Network Service
Posted by: admin in Business and PoliticsYou may never have heard of BitRock, the company that has traditionally competed with OpenLogic, SpikeSource, and SourceLabs in the “open-source stacks” business but has seen much more success with its excellent installers, which upwards of 60 percent of commercial open-source projects use including SugarCRM, JasperSoft, Ringside Networks, and more. The name might be unfamiliar to you, but not for long.
Why? Because BitRock is about to claim the center of the open-source world’s attention, as Stephe Walli, an advisor to BitRock, pointed out two months ago following the Open Source Business Conference. It’s called the Network, you’re apt to be buying into one very soon, if you haven’t already.
As open-source companies seek ways to monetize their code, a common theme has emerged: Networks. Red Hat has Red Hat Network. JBoss developed the JBoss Operations Network (recently graduating to 2.0 status). MySQL has its Monitor. And so on.
The problem with this approach is twofold: 1) It forces vendors to reinvent the Network wheel over and over again and 2) It leaves both vendors and customers isolated within one vendors Network offering. BitRock resolves this by providing a common infrastructure upon which the open-source vendor community can build, as Stephe notes:
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