Krugle is also now offering prospective customers the ability to evaluate the product on VMware before purchasing it…
“The Krugle Enterprise 2.0 enterprise code search app offers improved scalability and accuracy as well as a try-before-you-buy program, enables them to seamlessly embed Krugle code search into their developer networks…”
Menlo Park, Calif., — Krugle, Inc., the company that provides code search for the world’s leading developer networks, today announced the immediate availability of the second generation of its search appliance for enterprise software teams.
“Krugle Enterprise 2.0 expands search-driven development to a wider range of companies, regardless of the size of their code base or where those assets are stored.”
Krugle Enterprise 2.0 is sold as an appliance and can be configured to work with a variety of software change management systems, including ClearCase, Perforce, Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server, Subversion, and others, according to Krugle.
“It also can crawl flat-file systems and code archives, according to the company, based in Menlo Park, Calif.”
The Krugle Enterprise appliance organizes code and related development resources into a searchable, shareable asset. Krugle Enterprise makes it easy for developers to find the code that lives behind their company’s firewall, and serves that up alongside search results from over 2 billion lines of open source code.
“With the opening of this interface, Krugle is better able to serve the needs of its developer network partners,” said Matt Graney, senior director of product management, Krugle.
“Krugle allows developers to leverage existing code, do impact analysis and easily learn new code,” said Graney. “We received overwhelming interest from large software development shops with the initial release of Krugle Enterprise. We have taken feedback from that initial wave of enterprise adoption, integrated it into Krugle Enterprise 2.0, and given software architects and their development teams one of the most powerful development tools available.”
Results can be viewed through a Web browser, but Krugle also offers support for searching directly from the Eclipse IDE. There is an application programming interface for creating other integrations as well. “We have a first-class integration with Eclipse, and the next cab off the ramp will be Microsoft’s Visual Studio,” said Graney.
Michael Coté, an analyst with RedMonk, said Tuesday that it is important for software such as Krugle to be tightly linked with a developer’s core environment.
“If it cannot be crammed into the IDE, the experience that is in front of the software developer every hour of the day, I think it would not get the face time it needs to be worth it,” Coté said. “As an example, project management software that does not have a touch-point in IDEs tends to only be looked at by managers, and then developers have no idea about the overall project status.”
However, it may in fact be easier to scan code results in a browser window, according to Graney. “From a real-estate point of view, Eclipse is a busy sort of environment,” he said.
“By enabling them to seamlessly embed Krugle code search into their developer networks,” Graney added, “Krugle partners can now to give their user communities access to the same features available to Krugle enterprise customers.”
New features in Krugle Enterprise 2.0 include:
- Flexible management and configuration of the appliance’s access to their SCM systems. Krugle Enterprise 2.0 is highly configurable to support any SCM system, and provides support for flat file systems and code archives, making software assets more visible and valuable.
- The ability to manage larger code sets and more frequent updates; The Company revised the appliance’s architecture to use memory more efficiently, optimize disk drive access, and enable smarter incremental updates.
- Improved search accuracy through exact string matching and character tokenization.
- VMware evaluation, which allows development teams to quickly see and appreciate the value of Krugle Enterprise 2.0 on their own code.
It supports more than 40 languages, according to the company. There is also some reporting capability built into the product, such as a “heat map” function that provides a snapshot of activity levels among various projects.
“We have been really impressed with it,” said Patrick Hendry, CEO of Thuridion, a software consulting company and early beta user of the 2.0 release. “It definitely saves us time. We have not sat down and quantified how much we are saving into dollars, but clearly that has happened.”
Krugle provides code search for the world’s leading developer networks, including IBM developerWorks, CollabNet, SourceForge.net, and Yahoo! Developer Network. In addition to its enterprise appliance, Krugle hosts a free code search service that provides access to more than two billion lines of open source code from more than 350 code repositories.
Subscription pricing typically begins at about $25,000 per year and scales up depending on the size of the code base, the number of users, and how often the code base is crawled.
Krugle was formed in October 2005. Its competitors include Koders and Google. The company also runs a free site, www.krugle.org, which can be used to search more than 2 billion lines of open source code. The krugle.org index can also be accessed through the enterprise product.
Krugle, the code search company, helps developers find, fix and learn about code. Krugle is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif.
For more information, visit http://www.krugle.com