
reported quarterly takings of US$6.5 million. SourceForge's traditional revenue model is through advertising banner sales on their site. Given that many open-source projects fail due to lack of developer support, exposure to such a large community of developers can continually breathe new life into a project. As a project's activity rises, 's internal ranking system makes it more visible to other developers through SourceForge directory and Enterprise Directory. The vast number of users at (over 3 million as of 2013) exposes prominent projects to a variety of developers and can create a positive feedback loop. Major features (amongst others) include project wikis, metrics and analysis, access to a MySQL database, and unique sub-domain URLs (in the form ). Project developers have access to centralized storage and tools for managing projects, though it is best known for providing revision control systems such as CVS, SVN, Bazaar, Git and Mercurial.
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It acts as a centralized location for free and open-source software projects. SourceForge is a web-based source code repository.

SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software. Optional (required for creating and joining projects)

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