Community Partners

Active-X.COM
Active-X.COM is an online library of downloadable, ActiveX components. The site allows developers to search for components by keyword, category, or publisher name. Active-X.COM also offers registration of companies' products, as well as newsletters developers can subscribe to for free.

BEA Systems
BEA Systems, the world's leading application infrastructure software company, formed a global alliance with ComponentSource to increase Java developer productivity by expanding the range of third-party components and tools available on the market. The first fruits of this alliance are two marketplaces, both accessible from BEA's developer portal site dev2dev at http://dev2dev.bea.com/code/index.jsp

The BEA WebLogic Gallery lists components for the WebLogic Platform, such as EJBs, servlets, JSPs and Java Web services: http://www.componentsource.com/beasv.

The BEA WebLogic Workshop Gallery lists components compatible with WebLogic Workshop (BEA's development framework) such as EJBs and BEA WebLogic Controls: http://www.componentsource.com/beaws.

DEVPIA
Devpia is a portal site for the professional developer community that was constructed in 2000 under the motto of "developer's utopia". Devpia is one of the world's largest developer communities consisting of over 290,000 members and has 60,000 daily visitors, 583 user groups, 50,000 news monthly updates, 48 professional managers, and 120 professional instructors. In January 2001, Devpia started the first .NET community in Korea where many developers are able to view and share source code. In 2002, Devpia received an award from the president of Microsoft, Bill Gates, for activities in the developer community.

The main activities of Devpia involve .NET consulting, online education, operation of off-line seminars, development and distribution of software, and the development and selling of the DEXTUpload Component.

DevX
DevX is a provider of technical information and services that enable corporate IT development teams to conquer development challenges and keep projects moving. DevX's resources are available through their public Web site covering development topics such as .NET, Web Development, Java, XML, C/C++, Visual Basic, and SQL.

As a community partner they have been able to extend their business model and offer greater value add to their user base.

"At DevX we strive to place the right solution at the point of the problem for development professionals. Our core competency is in offering the best information resources to developers using a broad range of technologies," commented Sherry Thomas-Zon, Sr. VP Sales and Marketing at DevX. "The ability to provide ComponentSource's content as one of those resources greatly extends the value to our customer base, by offering specific tangible product solutions when our audience needs them. This has been a leading technology implementation for us and future partnerships will be measured based on our experience with ComponentSource."

Impress R&D
Impress R&D is one of the largest and best established E-commerce Web sites in Japan. Focusing on selling both books and software, it is the leading MSDN on-line license distributor in Japan. Impress R&D is a part of the Impress Group which also publishes books in the areas of business, digital media, DTP, music, medicine, nature and other areas.

INETA
INETA (The International .NET Association) is an organization focused on growing the worldwide community of Microsoft .NET user groups. The company .provides no-cost, structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to their international member base. The learning curve associated with Microsoft's recently launched .NET development environment has fueled their affiliation with ComponentSource

"As organizations begin their migration to Microsoft .NET, we foresee high demand for reusable .NET components and Web services from our growing .NET user base community. Our collaboration means that we are able to leverage ComponentSource's years of expertise and meet this demand head-on," commented Brian Loesgen, Director of INETA.

"ComponentSource is a pioneering partner for us as they provide a unique "off-the-shelf" service with extensive content, a robust eCommerce platform and a customer fulfillment service that is a model to the rest of industry. We now provide a customized .NET component and tool store for our international community with very little resource on our part."

vbCity.com
vbCity.com is an online developer community providing resources such as experts' articles on real life problems and forums. Members are rewarded for helping other members of the community.

VisualBuilder.com
VisualBuilder.com is an interactive community site for multi-skilled developers and IT staff. Developers can submit and share components, source code, articles and Web sites. VisualBuilder.com also features a discussion forum covering topics such as .NET, Java, JSP, ASP, PHP, C++, VB, XML, Oracle, SQL server, project management, and UML.