SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2004--CollabNet, the leading provider of collaborative software development solutions, today announced it is integrating the industry's newest open source versioning system, Subversion, into its global software development environment. CollabNet users will have a more powerful alternative to Concurrent Versions System (CVS). Subversion 1.0, released by CollabNet in February under an Apache-style license, provides significant version control functionality. Subversion, which is already in use on 1,400 publicly accessibly production services, will be integrated in the CollabNet environment in Q2 of this year.
"CollabNet recognized in 2000 that the world needed a better revision control system. We also realized it was a big task -- not only would it require a significant number of architects, programmers, and testers, it would also have to gain the trust of the user community," said Brian Behlendorf, CTO and co-founder of CollabNet. "We felt the best way to accomplish this was to be an open source project from day one, and build a community by bringing together other developers who we knew shared these goals. We invested heavily in the project by hiring four full-time developers to form an active core team, around which a much larger effort could be coordinated and sustained. The entire effort has been incubated from the very beginning at CollabNet's open source community, Tigris.org, using the CollabNet development environment. These Subversion developers working for CollabNet succeeded in building not just a great platform for revision control; they have also built a powerful developer community that is actively evolving Subversion into an enterprise-class application."
The CollabNet environment provides users with applications for software development, knowledge management, and project communication in a project-centric Internet workspace. CollabNet will provide full Subversion support as an integrated component of the CollabNet environment in the second quarter of this year. Organizations that use the CollabNet environment realize substantial return on investment through better management of offshore processes; through co-development with business partners; and through unifying geographically distributed project managers, developers, and business users on an integrated collaborative environment.
K-Collector Topics: Knowledge Management Open Source platforms Productivity