In a May 12 announcement, PreEmptive said its Runtime Intelligence
Service will publish application and feature usage statistics for
Microsoft’s CodePlex open source hosting service. PreEmptive is a
provider of technologies to measure, manage, and protect applications,
such as Dotfuscator -- which is perhaps the company's best-known
product.
With the addition of PreEmptive's Runtime Intelligence Service,
open-source developers visiting the CodePlex site will gain the ability
to see how applications on the site are performing in the real world,
helping them decide if they want to use a particular application.
PreEmptive officials said developers use Runtime Intelligence to
improve user experience, validate usage assumptions, and improve the
overall quality of their applications. Potential users of these
applications can use Runtime Intelligence to better identify which
applications are being used most often and even what features are most
popular.
“Developers always want reliable data on how their applications are
performing in the wild,” said Jonathan Wanagel, senior development
manager of Server and Tools Online at Microsoft, in a statement. “The
truly unique dimension that publishing this kind of information to an
open-source community brings is that now potential users will have the
same degree of visibility and that will help to drive adoption of
quality open-source applications.”
With the release of the latest version of the CodePlex site on May
6, 2010, developers can inject application monitoring technology into
their applications using Dotfuscator -- either the Community Edition
included with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or the commercial edition
licensed by PreEmptive. The instrumented applications stream usage data
to PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence Portal where it is then
integrated into, and published by, the CodePlex Website at
www.codeplex.com.
“The CodePlex team has truly raised the bar on what open source
developers and end users should expect from their hosting platforms,”
said Gabriel Torok, president of PreEmptive Solutions, in a statement.
“We are proud that Dotfuscator and the Runtime Intelligence Service are
a part of this solution.”
Dotfuscator injects all of this functionality into compiled assemblies.
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