For many people, this time of year is traditionally a time of reflection, a time for looking back at the year that has just gone by and a time for making plans for the months ahead. At Antelink we are no exception – particularly because 2011 was an exciting year in our company’s history.
It was in April last year that we launched Antepedia, the search engine that provides access to the world’s largest database of open source projects and components and which now stands at the core of our product suite. Over the following months, we gathered and incorporated information on components from Sourceforge, Google Code, Codeplex, Maven Central Repository, OW2, the Eclipse Foundation, Apache Archive and elsewhere. At last check, Antepedia contained details on just under one million open source projects and more than 200 million specific files.
As Antepedia grew, our product range grew with it. In August we released Antepedia Reporter, our standalone Java app that lets developers analyze all the files in a particular directory to check for the presence of open-source components. In September we released Antepedia Notifier, which plugs directly into an SCM tool, such as Subversion or Git to enable the detection of open-source components as soon as files are committed. At the end of October we announced the release of Antepedia Developer for Eclipse, our specific plug-in for the popular IDE.
Staying true to our desire to be “open-source friendly”, we revealed in October that the OW2 consortium was using Antepedia to manage the intellectual property of the projects it hosts. This news was followed just a few weeks later with the announcement that Scilab, the publishers of free and open-source software for numerical computation, had also begun using Antepedia Notifier to check for open-source components in the code it releases. Free versions of all our products are available for non-commercial use.
In November, we published a white paper outlining our vision on how companies and organisations can best get the full benefit of open source software (and you can download a copy here).
In December, we ended the year by launching SourceSquare, a handy (and free!) little tool that scans a folder on your hard drive and displays a treemap showing which parts of your source code are open source.
So, as I said, 2011 was a particularly exciting year for Antelink. As we enter 2012, I would like to take the opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to all our customers, Beta testers, followers and investors for their confidence and support.
We are anticipating the year to come will be filled with more exciting and successful news for us all!
Antelink team wishes you a very Happy New Year
