The new Google project hosting site is available in beta at http://code.google.com/hosting and it will host open-source projects to help developers find interesting software to which they can contribute. Generally I have open sourced software to be more stable that closed ones. Just compare the open-sourced Firefox with Internet Explorer and you will know what I mean.
Greg Stein, a technical lead at Google made this announcement at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and went on further to say: "SourceForge and Tigris are doing a really good job," he said. "We don't need to take all of the projects."
SourceForge has long been the standard for open-source developers, with more than 166,000 projects. "SourceForge is the place to go," said Jeff Wartes, a software engineer for Whitepages.com. But Wartes said he is "intrigued" by Google's offering, noting that SourceForge's search function is "not that great" and the site has sometimes been slow to add the latest features desired by developers.
Looks like SF has no qualms about this new site and Jay Seirmarco, SourceForge.net's general manager says : "What's good for the open-source community is good for SourceForge,". The two firms are also working side by side to create a common database of open-source project names, to avoid duplication and confusion to the users.
Google launches alternative to SourceForge source
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