Gemini (issue tracking system) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Gemini is a proprietary web-based issue tracking system

Issue tracking system

An issue tracking system is a computer software package that manages and maintains lists of issues, as needed by an organization...

and bug tracking system

Bug tracking system

A bug tracking system is a software application that is designed to help quality assurance and programmers keep track of reported software bugs in their work. It may be regarded as a type of issue tracking system....

provided by Countersoft

Countersoft

Countersoft is a privately-held, Limited, software company, registered and based in England, United Kingdom, It provides products and services to clients around the globe. It was founded in 2003....

, Ltd.

Technology

Gemini is based on Microsoft's

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

.NET Framework

The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

. It is developed using C#, ASP.Net

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...

,and Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...

. Gemini supports integration with Visual Studio, Outlook

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...

, Subversion (SVN) and Windows Live Messenger.

User Base

Gemini is used by over 5000 customers.
significant open source projects that use Gemini for their issue
tracking include DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke is an open source web content management system based on Microsoft .NET technology.DotNetNuke was written in VB.NET, though the developer has shifted to C# since version 6.0. It is distributed under both a Community Edition BSD-style license and commercial proprietary licenses as the...

and SharpDevelop

SharpDevelop

SharpDevelop is a free and open source integrated development environment for the Microsoft .NET, Mono, Gtk# and Glade# platforms, and supports development in C#, Visual Basic .NET, Boo, F#, IronPython and IronRuby programming languages.It was designed as a free and lightweight alternative to...

. Many large organizations use Gemini to manage software

Computer software

Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....

products and other products like car dealership

Car dealership

A car dealership or vehicle local distribution is a business that sells new or used cars at the retail level, based on a dealership contract with an automaker or its sales subsidiary. It employs automobile salespeople to do the selling...

s. Among them are National Health Service

National Health Service (England)

The National Health Service or NHS is the publicly funded healthcare system in England. It is both the largest and oldest single-payer healthcare system in the world. It is able to function in the way that it does because it is primarily funded through the general taxation system, similar to how...

in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, Motorola

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...

, Dell

Dell

Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...

, Ministère des Transports du Québec and Domino's pizza.

History

Founded in 2003, CounterSoft

Countersoft

Countersoft is a privately-held, Limited, software company, registered and based in England, United Kingdom, It provides products and services to clients around the globe. It was founded in 2003....

initially created Gemini as a free product. Version 1.4 was the first stable release and version 1.5 was the first commercial version (at 50 GBP).

License

Gemini is a proprietary software

Proprietary software

Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...

, but a free 3 user license is available as well as for non-profit organizations and open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

Awards

Gemini was an award winner in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Code Project Members Choice Awards.

External links

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