Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Radview WebLOAD goes Open Source!

OK, this is huge news: www.webload.org

The commercial performance/load test tool market is dominated by large proprietary commercial vendors (HP/Mercury, Borland/Segue, etc). Radview has a nice product called WebLOAD that competes in the space.

As of this morning, Radview announced they have released WebLOAD OS, an open source version of WebLOAD. It is full-on GPL licensed (no fake open source). I already browsed their source tree. They have a Subversion repository.. code is in C and C++,

The Open Source performance/load test tool market doesn't offer many choices. Currently the most popular tools are JMeter and OpenSTA.

This will be exciting. I wonder how well Radview will deal with the community on this. Though if it's not good, GNU GPL certainly allows forking :)

more to come...

Comments [3] |

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:50:31 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

check out www.webload.org and see how community offering...

Eran Witkon | eranwAT NOSPAMradview dot com

Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:12:27 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Eran, I've had a look and dove the source code for a bit (they have a subversion repository up). this is exciting and hopefully will gain momentum so we have a quality open source tool.

Corey | coreyAT NOSPAMgoldb dot org

Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:12:39 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

related: http://www.opensourcetesting.org/news/?p=419

Corey | coreyAT NOSPAMgoldb dot org

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