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Component Assembly Service Has Its Head in the Cloud
1/4/2008
"By making the Lomboz 3.3 IDE available in the form of Cloudsmith virtual distros, we save Lomboz users, as well as our own developers, a substantial amount of time," said Eteration's CEO, Naci Dai, in a statement. "When developers choose to get Lomboz via a Cloudsmith virtual distro, it will be automatically retrieved and assembled -- ready for use as an Eclipse IDE -- on the local machine."
It's still early days for Cloudsmith, but even now Sonies and his crew are watching their Ps and Qs.
"We're excited, but it's also a little scary," he said. "We want to minimize the complexity, and make sure we don't become one of these reuse libraries, where everyone is fighting about the semantics of how you describe a shopping cart or a sales-tax calculator. You end up in a black hole of complexity pretty quickly. We're just about the structural relationships among elements of software. We don't really know what they do or care how you use them."
John K. Waters is a freelance journalist and author based in Palo Alto, CA.
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