Joyent

Joyent Open Sources Web Collaborative Suite

July 18, 2007 - Email, Calendar, Bookmark, and File Sharing Applications for Rails Developers

Marin County, CA, July 18, 2007—Joyent, Inc releases the code for its Connector collaboration suite, under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). This is the latest in a series of moves by the company to foster greater innovation by working with its customers and demonstrating its commitment to Open Source. By releasing this code, Joyent brings a fully integrated Web collaboration suite to the Rails development community, which will then be free to enhance the software and develop entirely new applications.

According to Joyent CEO David Young, “The vibrancy of the Rails ecosystem relies on more than the framework. It also relies on the number and quality of free and open sourced applications available in the ecosystem. No longer will those of us committed to open source need to use products from companies that do not open their source. Connector has reached the right level of maturity, adoption, and innovation—with widespread use across enterprises and devices—to move into the next stage of its evolution.”.

Joyent will continue to invest in the ongoing development of Connector with features and new applications, such as “Web” which provides a unique take on group Web service management (blogs, wikis, svn, etc.), “Chat”, and a Web based “White Board” in the coming months.

Along with Connector, Joyent is also open sourcing its code for Slingshot, an online/offline development platform that embraces the best aspects of both Web and desktop applications. Slingshot gives developers the ability to rapidly develop, deploy and update, a new hybrid of productivity applications for Enterprise 2.0.

Young continues, “We believe in creating communities and sharing innovations and technologies to foster more participation, so open sourcing Connector and Slingshot is the right decision at the right time. Developers can improve platform quality and functionality by contributing feature enhancements, bug fixes, and testing results to the open-source Joyent initiatives”.

Joyent released the Ruby on Rails source code for its Connector suite, while retaining the configurations and system architecture that allow the company to run large-scale IMAP, MySQL, Jabber, WebDAV, and LDAP services for the hundreds of thousands of users the company supports today. Joyent Connector will continue to be offered to customers in a software-as-a-service model with commerical support licenses available for those customers who require service and support for creating their own Joyent Connector-based online offerings.

For more information on Joyent’s open source initiatives, go to http://dev.joyent.com/.

About Joyent

Joyent provides on-demand applications, compute, storage, and services to teams around the world. The ease with which Joyent’s solution scales to meet increased server demands allows end-user, startups and developers to focus on their business instead of their servers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Marin County, California, Joyent serves customers around the globe in multiple languages and time zones. For more information, visit Joyent’s web site www.joyent.com.

Media contacts:

Joyent, Kristie Wells, VP Marketing and Corporate Communications, 415-577-9022, kristie@joyent.com