"Oracle on Monday bid to become a supplier of online development
software and hosted development techniques by extending its Oracle
Technology Network for database developers out to general purpose
corporate developers as well."
"Trying to add to the lexicon of the Internet, Oracle spokesmen
called the move "the industry's first hosted development
environment" and dubbed Oracle the first Developer Service
Provider."
"In some respects, Oracle's moves were those of a large
commercial company's following the lead of such pioneers in online
development as VA Linux Systems' SourceForge, O'Reilly &
Associates Publishing and Hewlett-Packard's SourceXchange and
CollabNet's www.collab.net. All three provide collaborative
development tools and hosted services for open source code
projects."
