July 5, 2006 at 14:06Compiled a database of all software in the world
The Internet Internet project has opened on the Internet - a global database of all software ever released in the history of mankind: operating systems, financial software, browsers, graphic editors, games and much more.
The project has just begun its work: so far only about three hundred programs are presented in it , but it is very quickly updated (in two days the catalog has grown three times).
Of course, the distribution files themselves are not laid out on the site, because most of them are released under commercial licenses that prohibit distribution by third parties. The SoftwareIDB website compiles an information catalog with the names and descriptions of programs. All interested parties are invited to replenish it. Any visitor can edit entries on the site. First of all, the program developers themselves are invited, who can "hammer" into the database information about all their developments. You can send this information in a simpler way: for example, by email .
After SoftwareIDB is filled with information, software market researchers will have at their disposal a fairly powerful analytical tool. Here you can search by program name and manufacturer. Thus, you can trace the history of various versions of a program, as well as explore the range of the developer company. Each program in the catalog contains a brief description indicating the price, key features and photos (if any).
I must say that on the Internet there are many software catalogs, for example, Sourceforge , Freshmeat , Tinyapps , PacketStormSecurity , Rubyforge , Luaforge , MobyGamesand many others. These are specialized sites and universal catalogs, however, not one of them claims to be absolutely global, like the new SoftwareIDB database, which anyone can add to. This project should be distinguished for the better from all its predecessors by a logical sorting of programs into thematic categories with the ability to search in each of them.
The project has just begun its work: so far only about three hundred programs are presented in it , but it is very quickly updated (in two days the catalog has grown three times).
Of course, the distribution files themselves are not laid out on the site, because most of them are released under commercial licenses that prohibit distribution by third parties. The SoftwareIDB website compiles an information catalog with the names and descriptions of programs. All interested parties are invited to replenish it. Any visitor can edit entries on the site. First of all, the program developers themselves are invited, who can "hammer" into the database information about all their developments. You can send this information in a simpler way: for example, by email .
After SoftwareIDB is filled with information, software market researchers will have at their disposal a fairly powerful analytical tool. Here you can search by program name and manufacturer. Thus, you can trace the history of various versions of a program, as well as explore the range of the developer company. Each program in the catalog contains a brief description indicating the price, key features and photos (if any).
I must say that on the Internet there are many software catalogs, for example, Sourceforge , Freshmeat , Tinyapps , PacketStormSecurity , Rubyforge , Luaforge , MobyGamesand many others. These are specialized sites and universal catalogs, however, not one of them claims to be absolutely global, like the new SoftwareIDB database, which anyone can add to. This project should be distinguished for the better from all its predecessors by a logical sorting of programs into thematic categories with the ability to search in each of them.