CollabNet(R) Continues Record Business and Customer Growth.Rapid Customer Adoption, Business Expansion, and Innovative Products Solidify CollabNet's Position as a Leader in Distributed Software Development BRISBANE, Calif. -- CollabNet, a leading provider of on-demand collaborative software This is a list of collaborative software (or list of groupware) applications. Wiki software is on a list of wiki software. Open source or free software The following are open source or free software applications. development solutions, today announced a 122 percent year-over-year growth in new customers in the first quarter of 2007, making it the third consecutive quarter in which customer growth exceeded 70 percent or more. New additions to CollabNet's expanding global customer base include enterprise organizations such as Ball Aerospace & Technology Group, Mitac, Opsware, Siemens Medical Solutions Siemens Medical Solutions (Siemens Med) is a supplier to the healthcare industry, and is headquartered in Erlangen, Germany. Its U.S. division, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., is a Delaware corporation, with headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania. , and Centrix KK. Fueled by the industry's rapid adoption of its net-centric collaborative development model and Subversion(TM)-based development platform CollabNet Enterprise Edition (CEE cee n. The letter c. ), CollabNet is the leading enabler of global distributed software development with more than 16,000 public and private projects, and the equivalent of over 7TB of software assets and intellectual property (IP) now under management through CollabNet's software as a service (SAAS (Software-As-A-Service) Software that is rented rather than purchased. Instead of buying software and paying for periodic upgrades, SaaS is subscription based, and all upgrades are provided during the term of the subscription. ) based platform. Seeking ways to accelerate product development cycles, increase output of developers, and reduce the cost of developer test and build infrastructure in the rapidly emerging paradigm of distributed software development, businesses are using CollabNet solutions for speed, agility, cost efficiency, and innovation. This is demonstrated by: * CollabNet's sponsorship of Subversion (www.collab.net/subversion), the wildly popular version control system for software developers and one of the most successful open source projects. Celebrating its third birthday this year, Subversion adoption continues to increase by 265 percent year over year (http://subversion.open.collab.net/subversion-adoption.html). * CollabNet's December 2006 introduction of CollabNet CUBiT cu·bit n. An ancient unit of linear measure, originally equal to the length of the forearm from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow, or about 17 to 22 inches (43 to 56 centimeters). , the ground-breaking virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. solution that is gaining traction as the first solution to centrally and dynamically provision and manage development, build, and test environments. * CollabNet's launch of openCollabNet (www.open.collab.net) in November 2006, a rich online community with more than 100,000 unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. and over 5,000 registered users of Subversion and CollabNet as well as free downloads of its flagship products CollabNet Enterprise Edition along with certified versions of Subversion. * CollabNet's integration with Eclipse Mylar for task prioritization that creates a highly productive and easy to use Eclipse-based developer desktop. * Co-founder Brian Behlendorf Brian Behlendorf (Born March 30, 1973) is a technologist, computer programmer, and an important figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2006, where he lead an expert panel about the impact of open source on the software industry at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. * CollabNet's hosting of the 2006 "Staying Ahead in a Flat World" thought leadership summit with CollabNet co-founder Brian Behlendorf, "The World is Flat" author and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times correspondent Thomas L. Friedman, O'Reilly Media's Tim O'Reilly This article is about the founder of O'Reilly Media. For the musician, see Tim O'Reilly (musician). Tim O'Reilly (Irish: Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh, 1954-) was born in Cork, Ireland. , and the COO of Reuters, Devin Wenig. "CollabNet has played a major role in helping global organizations like Reuters and Philips Medical Systems drive innovation by proliferating collaboration with geographically dispersed partners, customers and developers and eliminating development silos," said Bill Portelli, CollabNet president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We are offering two to ten times the cost advantage and a 20 to 50 percent productivity improvement, as compared to costly conventional development platforms that do not meet the fundamental needs of today's highly distributed net-centric software development organizations." "Innovative approaches to the leveraging of open source -- both in the context of individual product releases and evolution and for Eclipse -- enable savvy companies to generate client adoption and to evolve their product simultaneously," said Melinda Ballou, Program Director for Application Life Cycle Management Service at International Data Corp., a global research and customer advisory service. "On Demand software licensing also facilitates user adoption and strengthens the customer/vendor relationship by giving users flexibility and on-going solutions choices." CollabNet's product portfolio helps manage the end-to-end lifecycle of an application in a Web-based environment, without compromising enterprise requirements for high security, reliability and data privacy. It consists of CollabNet Enterprise Edition, CollabNet Subversion, CollabNet Community Edition and, released at the end of 2006, CollabNet Centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. & Unified Build, Integration, Test (CUBiT). About CollabNet With more than one million users, CollabNet is the most widely used collaborative platform for globally distributed software development. The company is transforming the way software is being developed by enabling industry-leading companies to leverage global development talents and resources to deliver better products and innovate faster. CollabNet's innovative product solutions cover the entire application development lifecycle: Using CollabNet Enterprise Edition, project members can work as one team regardless of their location. Unlike conventional software tools, CollabNet is designed to meet the operational challenges of today's highly distributed development This article has multiple issues: * It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources. * Very few or no other articles link to this one. teams in a cost-effective way, yielding unprecedented annual savings through reduced development infrastructure costs, increased productivity, improved project visibility and shared access to software assets. CollabNet CUBiT is a ground-breaking virtualization solution that enables development organizations to dynamically provision and manage distributed development, build and test environments. CUBiT helps development teams to share critical build and test configurations and automate configuration processes across multiple sites, reducing the typical costs of developer infrastructure by 50%. CollabNet is also the primary sponsor of Subversion(TM), the wildly popular version control system for software developers and one of the most successful open source projects. CollabNet has been recognized for its innovation and industry leadership with 10 major business awards in 2006 including the Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: and Always On Top 100, and SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property Codie Awards. Visit CollabNet at http://www.collab.net or get more information about Subversion at http://www.collab.net/subversion. CollabNet is a registered trademark of CollabNet, Inc. or its affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. . All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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