GlobalSight

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GlobalSight
Initial release1997
Stable release
8.7.3 / March 20, 2017 (2017-03-20)
Operating system Linux, Windows
Type Translation management system
License Apache License 2.0
Website http://www.globalsight.com/

GlobalSight is a free and open source translation management system (TMS) released under the Apache License 2.0. [1] As of version 7.1 it supports the TMX and SRX 2.0 Localization Industry Standards Association standards. [2] It was developed in the Java programming language and uses a MySQL database. [3] GlobalSight also supports computer-assisted translation and machine translation.

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History

From 1997 to 2005 it was called Ambassador Suite and was developed and owned by GlobalSight Corp. that according to Red Herring magazine was one of the "ten companies to watch" in 1999. [4] In 2005, Transware Inc. acquired it and continued its development. In May 2008, Welocalize [5] acquired Transware and GlobalSight. [2] In January 2009 after replacing the proprietary technology used in the product (workflow, database, object relationship mapping, middleware, directory management and scheduling) [2] with open source components Welocalize released version 7.1. [1]

Steering committee

The Steering committee formed by representatives of the main companies currently involved in the project are listed here.

Other companies involved

In December 2008 there were four Language Service Providers involved in the project: Afghan Translation Service, Applied Language Solutions, Lloyd International Translations and VistaTEC. [10]

Features

According to the Translator and Reviewer Training Guide [11] and the GlobalSight vs WorldServer, [12] the software has the following features:

Integration with other platforms

In 2011, Globalme Language & Technology [14] released an open source plugin which connects the back end of a Drupal or Wordpress website to GlobalSight. Publishers can send their content directly to GlobalSight using this CMS plugin.

Drupal CMS In 2014 Globalme and Welocalize published an open source Drupal plugin to provide integration capabilities with the Drupal TMGMT translation management plugin.

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  12. ↑ "Document Details | GlobalSight vs. WorldServer 1.0". Globalsight.com. Archived from the original on 2013-09-22. Retrieved 2013-09-21.
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