Acknowledgements

The Portico Project (through its original creators, the littlebluefrog labs) would like to thank the following people/companies for their support through the offering of free services and licenses:

Atlassian
Jira is central to our development process, and thanks to the generosity of Atlassian, we are able to use this amazing piece of software for free. In return, give you some information about them:



"Atlassian supports our efforts by contributing their bug tracking and issue tracking application, JIRA, to our project.

''Atlassian is an innovative Australian software company providing enterprise software solutions to the world's leading organisations. Atlassian's leading software product, JIRA is a bug tracking and issue tracking application developed to track and manage the issues and bugs that emerge during a project. JIRA customers include departments from NASA, Boeing, Cisco, JP Morgan, 3M, BP, Sony and more. Try it for yourself today."''

Cenqua
Cenqua have been generous enough to grant the Portico Project a free license of their flagship product: Clover. The main developers of Portico have used Clover for previous projects and when it comes to code coverage analysis, there quite simply is no better. Go and check them out here.



From the Cenqua site:

''At Cenqua, we are always stoked to see our tools used in anger, especially on open source projects. We hope you enjoy using them as much as we enjoyed writing them. We would be honoured if you took the time to stick one of these shiny baubles on your website somewhere.''

YourKit Java Profiler
Profiling is an important part of the development of any application. When sitting down to profile Portico we wanted something industrial strength. Thankfully, the good people at YourKit granted us an open source license! If you haven't checked out their profiler, you really should, it is a comprehensive and impressive piece of work. We are very grateful to the YourKit team for their generosity and I hope all the users of Portico can also benefit from the improvements it will help us make.



''YourKit, LLC is a new technology leader, creator of the most innovative and intelligent tool for profiling Java applications. The YourKit Java Profiler has been already recognized by the IT professionals and analysts as the best profiling tool for Java.''

With YourKit Java Profiler, both CPU and memory profiling have come to the highest professional level, where one can profile even huge applications with maximum productivity and zero overhead.

SourceForge
SourceForge is perhaps the single largest repository of open source projects available. Everybody knows it, everybody uses it.