Open Bioinformatics Foundation gets Sun hardwarePalo Alto 10 September 2001 Sun will grant hardware, including servers and a secure storage system, to the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which distributes, develops and supports standards-based open source tools for life science research and data integration. The foundation will use the hardware to update its infrastructure, enabling more reliable and secure distribution of its tools and collaborative services over the Web.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (www.open-bio.org) supports the largest and
most active community of volunteer developers dedicated to creating freely
available standards-base tools for life science informatics. By promoting open
standards tools, the foundation helps facilitate data interchange within the
bioinformatics community while saving researchers time and costs.
The foundation will use Sun hardware
to meet its large and growing demand for tools and to create secure protection
of its source code.
"The grant from Sun puts us at a milestone in our project's history. With Sun
hardware at the heart of our third-generation infrastructure, our users will
benefit from superior performance, data integrity and security," said Chris
Dagdigian, systems manager and project administrator for the Open Bioinformatics
Foundation. "This will allow us to meet the growing demand for open-source
bioinformatics tools, and continue to build international support for the open
standards approach to life sciences research."
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