Laura Merling, former head of SDForum and vice president of Business Development at Krugle, today joins Mashery as its vice president of Sales and Marketing. Mashery makes it easy to deploy web services (as Reuters recently discovered with its Calais service, which used Mashery).
I've known Laura for six years. She was the one who made SDForum relevant in open source. She was the one who brought Krugle to my attention. I'm certain she'll continue to do what she does best at Mashery: raise awareness, build connections, and put lots more miles on her car. (Buy, Laura, don't lease. :-).
Good luck to you, Laura. Please stay in touch as I'd love to hear what you're up to at Mashery.
Louis XV couldn't have said it better. Open source compounds a problem that enterprise IT already had: A veritable flood of code. As Matt Graney, senior director of product management, Krugle, noted to me in an email on the eve of Krugle's release of its next-generation search appliance, developers may find themselves drowning in too much of a good thing:
I've said in a comment elsewhere that in many respects, we're approaching a point where developers won't really distinguish between FOSS [free and open-source software] and in-house, proprietary code because in the end it's just code that they didn't write. And that means that they will have all the same headaches in learning the code, understanding how to integrate with it...and even discovering that it exists in the first place. In fact, open source exacerbates the problem because...
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Eric Raymond made the point years ago that most software is written for use, not for sale. Eric put the number at 95%; that is, 95% of all software is written for in-house use, rather than for sale.
If he's right, and I believe he's not far off, then banks, manufacturers, retail chains, etc. are sitting on a massive gold mine of software.
Ken Krugler, founder of Krugle, agrees (as noted in this article in InformationWeek), and has put some back-of-the-napkin calculations together that suggest that billions of lines of code have been written for use, with trillions of dollars in associated development costs involved...and most of it with a good reason to go open source:
... Read moreAmazon used to be known as the "World's Largest Bookseller." Today, it sells a wide range of things, but also can boast one of the world's largest developer networks. Today, Krugle is announcing that Amazon has selected Krugle's syndicated code search technology, Krugle DevNetwork Edition, to help software developers more easily find code within the Amazon Web Services developer network.
This is the fifth such deal Krugle has signed lately, putting its code search tools in front of 1/3 of the world's 14 million developers. Other developer networks powered by Krugle include IBM developerWorks, Yahoo! Developer Network, SourceForge.net and Collab.net.
This puts Krugle at the axis of open source and Web (SaaS) development. While today Krugle is in the mode of enabling developer productivity through search, it will be interesting to see where it goes next. ... Read more
Laura Merling
Krugle has been silent for the past year. I was actually worried that the company had fizzled out, but--as I learned from Laura Merling today--nothing could be further from the truth:
We released the Enterprise product as GA, with 16 substantial companies (most are Fortune 100 or Fortune 500) that are now using it. No one will give us our evaluation search appliance back! Even those who are just evaluating our product refuse to drop Krugle once they've started using it. They've been providing their use cases to us to help us improve our services.
Krugle is doing well, in part, because it's done a good job of figuring out how to profit from open source, even when it, in itself, is not open source:
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