Google's Open Source Acre Server-side JavaScript Application Platform

August 26, 2010
By Developer.com Staff

Acre is the open source backend for the Freebase Apps platform.

Acre provides hosted, social application developer using server-side JavaScript. Because Acre is open source, developers can run Acre on their own server too.

Google purchased MetaWeb, the makers of Freebase, last month and Acre is a result of that acquisition.

You can learn more about Acre and Freebase here.

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