Google on Thursday will unveil a new service for the open source community, Greg Stein said in a blog posting

Stein is chairman of the Apache foundation and an engineering manager in the open-source group at Google.

Stein didn't give out any information other than the location and time of the announcement (the Open source conference (OSSCON) in Portland, Oregon). That's exactly what's needed to create a proper hype, especially since this one score two hits on the geeky bingo scale*.

26 Jul 2006

Some are suggesting (more wishful thinking) that Google is planning to launch a Sourceforge-like product.

I disagree. When it comes to non-revenue generating, community projects, Google prefers not to reinvent the wheel. Instead the company prefers to solve new problems.

My money is on some kind of software product for developers that solves a problem that Google has been struggling with internally. I admit that doesn't make for any good speculation, but it will have to do.

* In high tech reporting, anything concerning Apple, open source, Microsoft or Google will get more attention than market revenues justify.

Greg Stein

Tags: google, oscon, open source