A Mother Lode Of Business Code

"Forget IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. How much software do you think businesses have developed for internal use? Here's one expert's guesstimate.

"Ken Krugler is in the business of managing code. His startup, Krugle, has developed a source code search system that crawls, parses, and indexes code from hundreds of public and private software repositories, including SourceForge, CollabNet, and Yahoo's developers network. Krugle is putting the finishing touches on an appliance version of its technology for IT departments. The product will be generally available any day..."

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