Press Release

CollabNet Subversion wins Jolt Product Excellence Award

Recognized as Best Change and Configuration Management Tool

BRISBANE, Calif., March 23, 2005 — CollabNet, the leading provider of on demand distributed software development solutions, today announced CollabNet Subversion, a popular Web-based configuration management solution, has been awarded a Jolt Product Excellence Award by Software Development magazine. The award recognized CollabNet Subversion as the industry’s Best Change and Configuration Management Tool at an awards gala during SD West 2005.

For the past 15 years, Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards have been presented each year to products, books, and websites that have "jolted" the industry by helping create faster, easier, and more efficient software.

"This year, we had an unprecedented number of entries which made the selection process extremely challenging," said Rosalyn Lum, Software Development magazine’s technical editor. "We scrutinized every entry to find those who had made the most compelling impact on software development, and in the Change and Configuration Management Category, CollabNet Subversion is a great alternative to CVS and I believe jolted the industry."

Subversion has been architected from the ground up for distributed, Internet-based source code management providing very distinct WAN-performance advantages over its competitors. Subversion offers new features for distributed software development including: versioning of directories, copies, renames, and file metadata; truly atomic commits; enhanced network capabilities; more efficient handling of binary files; and very efficient branching and tagging.

CollabNet is the main corporate sponsor of the Subversion open source project and was the first company to integrate it into a complete solution for distributed software development. Subversion is available as a stand-alone open source configuration management solution, see http://subversion.tigris.org/ for details, and has been integrated into CollabNet Enterprise Edition as CollabNet Subversion. CollabNet Enterprise Edition, the leading solution for distributed software development, integrates tools for software development, project management, knowledge management, and communication management in an on-demand Web-based software development environment.

"The steady growth of Subversion is a testament to the efforts of the entire development team and clearly places CollabNet at the forefront of globally distributed software configuration management," said Karl Fogel, collaboration software specialist at CollabNet. "People were deploying Subversion into production use even before version 1.0 was released a year ago, and we've seen a 500 percent increase just in publicly accessible servers since then. We are thrilled this solution was honored with such a prestigious award."

CollabNet provides several services around the open source Subversion project including training, support, and consultant referrals. For more information on these Subversion support options, see http://www.collab.net/subversion/.