After having founded a couple companies, Mergere and LogicBlaze, which provide application life cycle management an enterprise service bus offerings, Simula Labs is changing course to focus on working with external providers outside its web.
The new offering, Community-oriented Real-time (CoRE) Network, is a cross between Spike Source, which sells a specific open source technology stack, and portals like SourceForge, which make open source components available but without any support (for that, you have to go to the respective communities). It will focus on Java-related open source components.
Unlike SpikeSource, which focuses on higher levels of the stack, CoRE will focus on components that are used by developers. Unlike SourceForge, CoRE will provide a single point of contact for support of different open source components. It will test, document, validate, and version-control open source distributions that are offered through its portal.
Besides Mergere and LogicBlaze, others signed up for the portal include Covalent, which offers a distribution of the popular Apache TomCat servlet container; and WebTide, which provides the Jetty container.
