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- AutoGen
- CareTracker
- CVS
- Debian GNU/Linux
- eNITL - the Network Improv Template Language
- GNOME
- GNUPro Toolkit for Linux
- IBM Research Jikes Compiler
- ivtools
- Kawa
- LSB-FHS Test Suite
- mod_dtcl
- Perforce Public Depot
- Platform for Information Applications (PIA)
- Python
- Test Environment Toolkit
- VMware
AutoGen |
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| URL: | http://autogen.linuxbox.com |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 4.5.2 |
| Description: | AutoGen is a tool for automatically generating arbitrary text files that contain repetitive text with varying substitutions. |
| Contact: | Bruce Korb |
| Contact e-mail: | autogen@linuxbox.com |
| Contact phone: | (831)426.4445 |
| Lead Developer(s): | Bruce Korb, Gary Vaughan |
| Development started: | 1991 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Extensive. See URL. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Guile extension language. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Email me & arrange rendezvous. |
CareTracker |
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| URL: | http://www.linuxcare.com/developers.html |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.6.3 |
| Description: | CareTracker is a Web-based incident-tracking system based on jitterbug. It's available both as source and as a free service to open source development projects. |
| Contact e-mail: | caretracker@linuxcare.com |
| Lead Developer(s): | Dave Sifry |
| Development started: | 1997 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
SQL database support, enhanced HTML template support |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Complete back-end accounting system |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Come to the LinuxCare booth, #2034 |
CVS |
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| URL: | http://www.cyclic.com/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.10 |
| Description: | CVS is the most popular version-control system in the Linux community, being used by GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, and many other projects. |
| Contact: | Jim Kingdon |
| Contact e-mail: | info@cyclic.com |
| Contact phone: | (202) 265 6119 |
| Lead Developer(s): | A team of 15 or so CVS Developers. |
| Development started: | 1986 |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Cyclic Software booth. |
Debian GNU/Linux |
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| URL: | http://www.debian.org/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 2.0 |
| Description: | One of the top Linux distributions. With over 3,000 software packages, Debian can meet your needs as a desktop, server, and development platform. |
| Contact: | Joey Hess |
| Contact e-mail: | joey@kitenet.net |
| Contact phone: | (510) 547-0542 |
| Lead Developer(s): | 400, too many to list here. Complete list is at http://www.debian.org/devel/people |
| Development started: | January 1994 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
3,000+ software packages, apt - an advanced package installation tool, available for sparc, i386, m68k, alpha |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | GUI installation and configuration, ports to arm, powerpc, HURD |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Debian will have a booth at the show. |
eNITL - the Network Improv Template Language |
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| URL: | http://networkimprov.com/enitl/enitl.html |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.0b1 |
| Description: | eNITL is a class library providing an embeddable, extensible, user-friendly, fast, thread-safe, simple, template-oriented, cross-platform, open-source scripting language engine for C++ applications that require flexible, user-configurable output generation and internal scripting. |
| Contact: | Liam Breck |
| Contact e-mail: | liam@networkimprov.com |
| Lead Developer(s): | Liam Breck |
| Development started: | January 1999 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Templates with mixed literal text & eNITL statements; flow control with if/elseif/else, while/break/continue, return/exit; C-style expression syntax; templates callable with a variable number of parameters; local & parameter variables of type string/integer/real; string processing functions; access to a library of developer-defined functions with optional parameters; option for users to edit templates and define new ones; multiple output streams (e.g. Web & email) within one template; dynamic execution capability; |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Meeting pre-arranged by email |
GNOME |
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| URL: | http://www.gnome.org |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.0 |
| Description: | The GNU Network Object Model Environment |
| Contact: | Miguel de Icaza |
| Contact e-mail: | miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx |
| Development started: | August, 1997 |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | BOFs, meetings at the hotel, at session, at the FSF booth. |
GNUPro Toolkit for Linux |
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| URL: | www.cygnus.com/gnupro |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.0 |
| Description: | Cygnus GNUPro Toolkit for Linux is a complete software development toolkit that includes ANSI-conforming C and C/C++ compilers, a macro-assembler, the Cygnus Insight Visual Debugger, and pre-built binary utilities all on CD with online and printed documentation, including Getting Started and Quick Reference guides. Cygnus GNUPro is optimized to provide best-of-class development tools for commercial software developers using Linux. |
| Contact: | Cygnus Sales |
| Contact e-mail: | info@cygnus.com |
| Contact phone: | (408) 542-9600 |
| Development started: | 1998 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Cygnus Insight graphical user interface for GDB |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | More extensible development capabilities |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Booth 1626 |
IBM Research Jikes Compiler |
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| URL: | http://www.ibm.com/research/jikes |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | v0.44 Support for 1.2 (aka Java 2) language extensions |
| Description: | Jikes is a Java source code to bytecode compiler that is compliant and fast. |
| Contact: | David Shields |
| Contact e-mail: | shields@watson.ibm.com |
| Lead Developer(s): | Philippe Charles and Dave Shields of IBM Research are the co-authors of the original version. Since the release of the source in December 1998 they have continued work jointly with the Java developer community |
| Development started: | January 1996 |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Hard to say |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | IBM booth |
ivtools |
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| URL: | http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 0.7.4 |
| Description: | Suite of drawing editors, spatial data servers, and corresponding application frameworks |
| Contact: | Scott Johnston |
| Contact e-mail: | johnston@vectaport.com |
| Contact phone: | (650) 368-8210 |
| Lead Developer(s): | Scott Johnston, Richard Kissh, Jorge Gautier |
| Development started: | January 1994 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Non-blocking download and display of rasters by URL. Complete online class documentation. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Full-featured scripting languages for multi-frame and graph-browsing editors. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Prearrangement by email, or somewhere near the back of the hall after Torvald's keynote speech. (See http://www.vectaport.com/johnston/mtdiabl1.jpg -- I'm the one with sunglasses). |
Kawa |
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| URL: | http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner/kawa.html |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.6.57 |
| Description: | An implementation of Scheme that compiles into Java bytecodes. Also, a toolkit for implementing other dynamic languages. |
| Contact: | Per Bothner |
| Contact e-mail: | bothner@cygnus.com |
| Lead Developer(s): | Per Bothner |
| Development started: | May 1996 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Support for full tail-call-elimination. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | An implementation of elisp (as used in Emacs). An implementation of ECMAScript. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | I will be at the LinuxWorld; you can leave a message at the Cygnus booth. |
LSB-FHS Test Suite |
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| URL: | http://www.opengroup.org/testing/lsb-fhs |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 0.77 |
| Description: | The LSB-FHS test suite tests the filesystem hierarchy aspects of the Linux Standard Base (as in FHS2.0). It uses the TET3/VSXgen framework as the test driver. |
| Contact: | Andrew Josey |
| Contact e-mail: | ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org |
| Lead Developer(s): | Andrew Josey |
| Development started: | December 1998 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
The test framework is complete, and 95% of the tests are now complete. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | The aim is to have this approved as one measure of LSB compliance. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | I'll be at the keynote/party on Tuesday evening and the LSB session on Wednesday AM. Otherwise send me email. |
mod_dtcl |
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| URL: | http://comanche.com.dtu.dk/dave/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 0.4.x |
| Description: | mod_dtcl allows you to script html pages with Tcl. It functions similiarly to, and was inspired by, PHP. |
| Contact: | David N. Welton |
| Contact e-mail: | davidw@prosa.it |
| Contact phone: | (415) 440-2921 |
| Lead Developer(s): | David N. Welton |
| Development started: | Summer 1998 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Small library of standard functions, approaching feature stability. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Depends entirely on interest of user and developer community. I can see several different paths that this software might take, but a lot depends on the feedback I get. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Anything: email, meeting me at the Debian booth, prior arangement, telephone. |
Perforce Public Depot |
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| URL: | http://public.perforce.com/public/index.html |
| Description: | Online software configuration management system that helps open source development teams manage large, complex development projects across multiple OS platforms. The Public Depot gives developers easy access to a public software development repository. While not itself an open source product, Perforce software is available, free of charge, to people developing bona fida open source software of interest to Perforce users. |
| Contact: | Nigel Chanter |
| Contact e-mail: | nigel@Perforce.com |
| Contact phone: | (510) 864-7400 |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Come to the Perforce booth at the expo. |
Platform for Information Applications (PIA) |
|
| URL: | http://www.RiSource.org/PIA/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 2.0 (initial external release) |
| Description: | A framework for the development of flexible and dynamic information applications for the small- to medium-sized office and workgroup. |
| Contact: | Greg Wolff |
| Contact e-mail: | wolff@rsv.ricoh.com |
| Contact phone: | (650) 496-5718 |
| Lead Developer(s): |
Steve Savitzky |
| Development started: | Internal development began in 1996 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Rapid development of information applications -- systems that embed a little bit of processing in a lot of information. Dynamic processing of HTML and XML documents. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Information applications that can be maintained and extended by non-programmers. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Attend our session #74 Thursday, March 4 at 10:30 (C2) or arrange by email (wolff@rsv.ricoh.com). |
Python |
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| URL: | http://www.python.org/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.5.1, 1.5.2b2 |
| Description: | Python, the scripting language |
| Contact: | Guido van Rossum |
| Contact e-mail: | guido@python.org |
| Contact phone: | (703) 620-8990 |
| Lead Developer(s): | Guido van Rossum |
| Development started: | 1989 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Getting ready for release 1.5.2, see http://www.python.org/1.5/ |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Release 1.6: Unicode, string methods, rich comparisons, more flexible import hooks |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Will be there Tuesday through Thursday. Panel #52 on Wednesday at 4pm, room A2. BOF??? |
Test Environment Toolkit |
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| URL: | http://tetworks.opengroup.org |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 3.2e |
| Description: | The test environment toolkit (TET3) is a multi-platform test scaffold for development of distributed and non-distributed tests. |
| Contact: | Andrew Josey |
| Contact e-mail: | ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org |
| Lead Developer(s): | Andrew Dingwall, Andrew Josey |
| Development started: | 1990 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Supports C, C++, Perl, sh, Tcl. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Integrated Java support |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | I'll be at the keynote/party on Tuesday evening and the LSB session on Wednesday AM. Otherwise send me email. |
VMware |
|
| URL: | http://www.vmware.com |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.0 Beta |
| Description: | VMware allows mutiple operating systems to run concurrently on a standard personal computer. |
| Contact: | Darryl Ramm |
| Contact e-mail: | sales@vmware.com |
| Contact phone: | (650) 856 3300 x 106 |
| Development started: | 1997 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
o Ability to run MSDOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris for Intel, etc., concurrently. o Ability to install OSes without repartitioning disks. o Disk undo/rollback capability. o Encapsulation technology that allows quick movement of OSes and user environments between systems without having to reconfigure the OS. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | VMware will be demonstrating its product at the LinuxCare and VA Research booths. |
AutoGen |
|
| URL: | http://autogen.linuxbox.com |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 4.5.2 |
| Description: | AutoGen is a tool for automatically generating arbitrary text files that contain repetitive text with varying substitutions. |
| Contact: | Bruce Korb |
| Contact e-mail: | autogen@linuxbox.com |
| Contact phone: | (831)426.4445 |
| Lead Developer(s): | Bruce Korb, Gary Vaughan |
| Development started: | 1991 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Extensive. See URL. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Guile extension language. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Email me & arrange rendezvous. |
CareTracker |
|
| URL: | http://www.linuxcare.com/developers.html |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.6.3 |
| Description: | CareTracker is a Web-based incident-tracking system based on jitterbug. It's available both as source and as a free service to open source development projects. |
| Contact e-mail: | caretracker@linuxcare.com |
| Lead Developer(s): | Dave Sifry |
| Development started: | 1997 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
SQL database support, enhanced HTML template support |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Complete back-end accounting system |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Come to the LinuxCare booth, #2034 |
CVS |
|
| URL: | http://www.cyclic.com/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.10 |
| Description: | CVS is the most popular version-control system in the Linux community, being used by GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, and many other projects. |
| Contact: | Jim Kingdon |
| Contact e-mail: | info@cyclic.com |
| Contact phone: | (202) 265 6119 |
| Lead Developer(s): | A team of 15 or so CVS Developers. |
| Development started: | 1986 |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Cyclic Software booth. |
Debian GNU/Linux |
|
| URL: | http://www.debian.org/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 2.0 |
| Description: | One of the top Linux distributions. With over 3,000 software packages, Debian can meet your needs as a desktop, server, and development platform. |
| Contact: | Joey Hess |
| Contact e-mail: | joey@kitenet.net |
| Contact phone: | (510) 547-0542 |
| Lead Developer(s): | 400, too many to list here. Complete list is at http://www.debian.org/devel/people |
| Development started: | January 1994 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
3,000+ software packages, apt - an advanced package installation tool, available for sparc, i386, m68k, alpha |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | GUI installation and configuration, ports to arm, powerpc, HURD |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Debian will have a booth at the show. |
eNITL - the Network Improv Template Language |
|
| URL: | http://networkimprov.com/enitl/enitl.html |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.0b1 |
| Description: | eNITL is a class library providing an embeddable, extensible, user-friendly, fast, thread-safe, simple, template-oriented, cross-platform, open-source scripting language engine for C++ applications that require flexible, user-configurable output generation and internal scripting. |
| Contact: | Liam Breck |
| Contact e-mail: | liam@networkimprov.com |
| Lead Developer(s): | Liam Breck |
| Development started: | January 1999 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Templates with mixed literal text & eNITL statements; flow control with if/elseif/else, while/break/continue, return/exit; C-style expression syntax; templates callable with a variable number of parameters; local & parameter variables of type string/integer/real; string processing functions; access to a library of developer-defined functions with optional parameters; option for users to edit templates and define new ones; multiple output streams (e.g. Web & email) within one template; dynamic execution capability; |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Meeting pre-arranged by email |
GNOME |
|
| URL: | http://www.gnome.org |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.0 |
| Description: | The GNU Network Object Model Environment |
| Contact: | Miguel de Icaza |
| Contact e-mail: | miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx |
| Development started: | August, 1997 |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | BOFs, meetings at the hotel, at session, at the FSF booth. |
GNUPro Toolkit for Linux |
|
| URL: | www.cygnus.com/gnupro |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.0 |
| Description: | Cygnus GNUPro Toolkit for Linux is a complete software development toolkit that includes ANSI-conforming C and C/C++ compilers, a macro-assembler, the Cygnus Insight Visual Debugger, and pre-built binary utilities all on CD with online and printed documentation, including Getting Started and Quick Reference guides. Cygnus GNUPro is optimized to provide best-of-class development tools for commercial software developers using Linux. |
| Contact: | Cygnus Sales |
| Contact e-mail: | info@cygnus.com |
| Contact phone: | (408) 542-9600 |
| Development started: | 1998 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Cygnus Insight graphical user interface for GDB |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | More extensible development capabilities |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Booth 1626 |
IBM Research Jikes Compiler |
|
| URL: | http://www.ibm.com/research/jikes |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | v0.44 Support for 1.2 (aka Java 2) language extensions |
| Description: | Jikes is a Java source code to bytecode compiler that is compliant and fast. |
| Contact: | David Shields |
| Contact e-mail: | shields@watson.ibm.com |
| Lead Developer(s): | Philippe Charles and Dave Shields of IBM Research are the co-authors of the original version. Since the release of the source in December 1998 they have continued work jointly with the Java developer community |
| Development started: | January 1996 |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Hard to say |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | IBM booth |
ivtools |
|
| URL: | http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 0.7.4 |
| Description: | Suite of drawing editors, spatial data servers, and corresponding application frameworks |
| Contact: | Scott Johnston |
| Contact e-mail: | johnston@vectaport.com |
| Contact phone: | (650) 368-8210 |
| Lead Developer(s): | Scott Johnston, Richard Kissh, Jorge Gautier |
| Development started: | January 1994 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Non-blocking download and display of rasters by URL. Complete online class documentation. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Full-featured scripting languages for multi-frame and graph-browsing editors. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Prearrangement by email, or somewhere near the back of the hall after Torvald's keynote speech. (See http://www.vectaport.com/johnston/mtdiabl1.jpg -- I'm the one with sunglasses). |
Kawa |
|
| URL: | http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner/kawa.html |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.6.57 |
| Description: | An implementation of Scheme that compiles into Java bytecodes. Also, a toolkit for implementing other dynamic languages. |
| Contact: | Per Bothner |
| Contact e-mail: | bothner@cygnus.com |
| Lead Developer(s): | Per Bothner |
| Development started: | May 1996 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Support for full tail-call-elimination. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | An implementation of elisp (as used in Emacs). An implementation of ECMAScript. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | I will be at the LinuxWorld; you can leave a message at the Cygnus booth. |
LSB-FHS Test Suite |
|
| URL: | http://www.opengroup.org/testing/lsb-fhs |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 0.77 |
| Description: | The LSB-FHS test suite tests the filesystem hierarchy aspects of the Linux Standard Base (as in FHS2.0). It uses the TET3/VSXgen framework as the test driver. |
| Contact: | Andrew Josey |
| Contact e-mail: | ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org |
| Lead Developer(s): | Andrew Josey |
| Development started: | December 1998 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
The test framework is complete, and 95% of the tests are now complete. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | The aim is to have this approved as one measure of LSB compliance. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | I'll be at the keynote/party on Tuesday evening and the LSB session on Wednesday AM. Otherwise send me email. |
mod_dtcl |
|
| URL: | http://comanche.com.dtu.dk/dave/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 0.4.x |
| Description: | mod_dtcl allows you to script html pages with Tcl. It functions similiarly to, and was inspired by, PHP. |
| Contact: | David N. Welton |
| Contact e-mail: | davidw@prosa.it |
| Contact phone: | (415) 440-2921 |
| Lead Developer(s): | David N. Welton |
| Development started: | Summer 1998 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Small library of standard functions, approaching feature stability. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Depends entirely on interest of user and developer community. I can see several different paths that this software might take, but a lot depends on the feedback I get. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Anything: email, meeting me at the Debian booth, prior arangement, telephone. |
Perforce Public Depot |
|
| URL: | http://public.perforce.com/public/index.html |
| Description: | Online software configuration management system that helps open source development teams manage large, complex development projects across multiple OS platforms. The Public Depot gives developers easy access to a public software development repository. While not itself an open source product, Perforce software is available, free of charge, to people developing bona fida open source software of interest to Perforce users. |
| Contact: | Nigel Chanter |
| Contact e-mail: | nigel@Perforce.com |
| Contact phone: | (510) 864-7400 |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Come to the Perforce booth at the expo. |
Platform for Information Applications (PIA) |
|
| URL: | http://www.RiSource.org/PIA/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 2.0 (initial external release) |
| Description: | A framework for the development of flexible and dynamic information applications for the small- to medium-sized office and workgroup. |
| Contact: | Greg Wolff |
| Contact e-mail: | wolff@rsv.ricoh.com |
| Contact phone: | (650) 496-5718 |
| Lead Developer(s): |
Steve Savitzky |
| Development started: | Internal development began in 1996 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Rapid development of information applications -- systems that embed a little bit of processing in a lot of information. Dynamic processing of HTML and XML documents. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Information applications that can be maintained and extended by non-programmers. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Attend our session #74 Thursday, March 4 at 10:30 (C2) or arrange by email (wolff@rsv.ricoh.com). |
Python |
|
| URL: | http://www.python.org/ |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.5.1, 1.5.2b2 |
| Description: | Python, the scripting language |
| Contact: | Guido van Rossum |
| Contact e-mail: | guido@python.org |
| Contact phone: | (703) 620-8990 |
| Lead Developer(s): | Guido van Rossum |
| Development started: | 1989 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Getting ready for release 1.5.2, see http://www.python.org/1.5/ |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Release 1.6: Unicode, string methods, rich comparisons, more flexible import hooks |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | Will be there Tuesday through Thursday. Panel #52 on Wednesday at 4pm, room A2. BOF??? |
Test Environment Toolkit |
|
| URL: | http://tetworks.opengroup.org |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 3.2e |
| Description: | The test environment toolkit (TET3) is a multi-platform test scaffold for development of distributed and non-distributed tests. |
| Contact: | Andrew Josey |
| Contact e-mail: | ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org |
| Lead Developer(s): | Andrew Dingwall, Andrew Josey |
| Development started: | 1990 |
|
Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
Supports C, C++, Perl, sh, Tcl. |
| Features expected by LinuxWorld 2000 (March 2000): | Integrated Java support |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | I'll be at the keynote/party on Tuesday evening and the LSB session on Wednesday AM. Otherwise send me email. |
VMware |
|
| URL: | http://www.vmware.com |
| Version number (as of March 1, 1999): | 1.0 Beta |
| Description: | VMware allows mutiple operating systems to run concurrently on a standard personal computer. |
| Contact: | Darryl Ramm |
| Contact e-mail: | sales@vmware.com |
| Contact phone: | (650) 856 3300 x 106 |
| Development started: | 1997 |
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Latest features (as of March 1, 1999): |
o Ability to run MSDOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris for Intel, etc., concurrently. o Ability to install OSes without repartitioning disks. o Disk undo/rollback capability. o Encapsulation technology that allows quick movement of OSes and user environments between systems without having to reconfigure the OS. |
| How/where can people connect with you at LinuxWorld?: | VMware will be demonstrating its product at the LinuxCare and VA Research booths. |