GigaSpaces Launches OpenSpaces.org
January 15, 2008 |
Remember when Guy Kawasaki launched Truemors on the cheap? Bootstrapping a Web 2.0 start-up is the name of the game, but one of the problems with this mentality s that apps aren't built to scale out of the box. Services like Amazon's EC2 can help with scaling your hardware needs, but you still have to be able to be able to build that app to scale across all those servers. Enter GigaSpaces' eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which
“combines advanced services such as distributed data caching, distributed messaging bus, parallel processing, and grid-enablement with open standards and cross-language support to enable a “write once, scale anywhere” approach to the development and deployment of distributed applications.”
Now GigaSpaces is taking XAP to the Open Source community, with their launch today of OpenSpaces.org. OpenSpaces.org will allow Open Source developers to contribute to the development framework, with bug tracking; upload, review, and download functionality; and forums.
To really kick off the launch of the new site, they are tying it in with the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge, a 25,000 USD contest (including a $10,000 grand prize) with prizes to be awarded to the “most innovative applications” built using the OpenSpaces framework, or plug-ins that extend the framework.
If you are building the next Twitter or Facebook, your Guy Kawasaki money may be right here for the taking. More information about the contest can be found on the OpenSpaces web site.
