SourceForge, a tech news and e-commerce network has acquired Ohloh, a social network for developers and directory of open source projects, for an undisclosed amount.
SourceForge owns and operates a number of tech media websites, including SourceForge.net, a centralized location for software developers to manage open source software development; Slashdot, a tech news site; ThinkGeek, a marketplace for tech goods.
Founded in 2004, Ohloh crawls 3,500 open source forges and gathers statistics and data on more than 300,000 open source projects and 300,000 open source developers. It’s not clear of Ohloh will be absorbed into SourceForge.net.
Never heard of these guys but congrats anyway!
You’ve never heard of SourceForge or Ohloh? Ohloh I can understand, SourceForge I cannot.
You were under a rock or what?
congrats Scott C.
When I saw the title of this post, I thought you were talking about SourceForge.net lol.
Well, SourceForge Inc. owns SourceForge.net, so they kinda do.
Cool!
SF is a great site.
This acquisition is a good fit!
I hope SF will good only things with ohloh.net like integrating ohloh.net/p/* into sourceforge.net/project/*
Cheers!
Shonzilla
congrats to the Ohloh boys. Couldn’t happen to a nicer or sharper group of guys. They really care about developers, and are obsessed with happy customers. We can all learn a lot from them.
I’ve got an account on both; Ohloh and SourceForge, so I’m merging too
Great move by SF, Ohloh is a nice open source directory and community.