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Katie Serignese
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January 25, 2010 —  (Page 1 of 1)
Live Android topped Black Duck’s 2nd annual “Rookies of the Year” list, which recognizes those open-source projects started in 2009 that are drawing the most attention.

Based on the Google Android operating system, the cutting-edge project was started for those interested in checking out the system, but not so interested enough in buying a T-Mobile G1, G2 or G3 to do so. Live Android allows the user to run Android on a PC without affecting any files.

While a mobile open-source project topped the list, the others reflected hot trends in gaming, cloud computing and healthcare. Open Health Natural Language Processing, developed by IBM and the Mayo Clinic, came in second with their project to give medical clinicians and researchers access to unstructured textual documents.

"It’s about pushing the envelope and showing the spectrum of things,” said Eran Strod, Black Duck’s director of product marketing. This list reflects the areas upon which people are placing value now, he added.

Black Duck, a Waltham, Mass.-based company, created a point system based on three basic guidelines: the number of releases in a project, the number of developers involved, and the number of websites linked to the project. The criteria show “good signs,” Strod said, and are used to gauge which projects have “gotten notice and are valuable enough that people are pointing to it.”

To find these projects, Black Duck spiders the Internet for open-source code and adds what it has found to its repository of more than 230,000 open-source projects from more than 4,500 unique websites.

Although the “rookie” list is mainly done for fun, it also shows the innovation and buzz around open-source software. Black Duck chose from 19,000 projects in 2009, up from 17,000 in 2008. Developers last year also averaged 52 new projects a day, up from 47 a day in 2008.

The Black Duck Rookies of the Year for 2009:

ProjectDescription
1. Live Android For those who want to try Android without buying a phone, Live Android lets the user run Android on his or her PC without affecting other files.
2. Open Health Natural Language ProcessingDeveloped by IBM and the Mayo Clinic, the project gives medical clinicians and researchers access to unstructured textual documents (e.g., pathology reports, clinical notes, etc.).
3. Mobile Browser Definition FileProvides all the information needed to adaptively render content for mobile phones and devices, presenting server applications with a set of 67 capabilities or properties—from screen size to cookie support—to describe a mobile client device.
4. Redis (REmote Dictionary Server)An advanced key-store database that supports very fast, persistent access to a dataset. It is a simple way of storing data and a concept that can scale to the cloud.
5. SmasherAudio loop slicer designed to create striking effects from WAV, MP3, FLAC or AIFF files in seconds without a sequencer. Effects include filter sweeps, phasing, flanging, delay and distortion.
6. AbiCloudInfrastructure software for the creation and integral management of public and private clouds based on heterogeneous environments. The project aims to offer users a tool with the capacity for scaling, management, automatic and immediate provision of servers, storage, networks and virtual network devices, as well as applications.
7. TransdroidRemote torrent client for Android that supports faster downloads of large video, audio or software files.
8. RainmeterThis customizable PC resource meter can display various performance data in different formats. Rainmeter can measure CPU load, allocated memory, network traffic, performance data, uptime, free disk space, and more.
9. TweetCraftThis World of Warcraft add-on enables players to send and receive tweets using Twitter without leaving the game; automatically upload and post screenshots using TwitPic (which shares photos on Twitter); and automatically tweet certain in-game events, such as achievements.
10. Native ClientRuns x86 native code in Web applications, with the goal of ensuring browser neutrality, OS portability and safety.

SOURCE: Black Duck Software




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