It's a shame, because they had a great service, but it's very hard for them to generate buzz nowadays as they have been very much overshadowed by github.
"It hurts us all the more that we are forced to discontinue the hosting for BerliOS by 31.12.2011."
Is hosting for something like that really so much of an issue? I would have expected Frauenhofer to have plenty of serverspace around to keep it up for a little longer.
The question is: is Jörg Schilling (who maintained BerliOS) now unemployed because FOKUS decided to close BerliOS, or do they close it down because Jörg Schilling left FOKUS and nobody's interested in maintaining the mess he left behind?
(j/k)
Isn't a couple of servers enough to host such a service? This is the matter of 80€/month... (at least this is what I'm paying right now for 2 i5 servers with 1Gb/s unlimited traffic and 1TB mirrored drives).