By Stephen Shankland, staff writer of CNET News.com reports that two Web sites for helping companies fund open-source programming projects launched their sites within two days of each other, this week.

Shankland writes “Sourcexchange, the main project of a company called Collab.net, began official operations just a day after competitor Cosource went live. The sites are set up to act as the middleman between open-source programmers looking for work and companies who need programming done but don't want to devote their own personnel to the task. Both will have to compete for attention with Open Avenue, which has won the confidence of database company Oracle and is seeking investment funding, and Free Software Bazaar which has been in operation for months.”

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