CollabNet Subversion Wins Jolt Product Excellence Award; Recognized as Best Change and Configuration Management Tool.BRISBANE, Calif. -- CollabNet, the leading provider of on demand distributed software development solutions, today announced CollabNet Subversion sub·ver·sion n. 1. a. The act or an instance of subverting. b. The condition of being subverted. 2. Obsolete A cause of overthrow or ruin. , a popular Web-based configuration management solution, has been awarded a Jolt JOLT - Java Open Language Toolkit 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 jolt v. jolt·ed, jolt·ing, jolts v.tr. 1. To move or dislodge with a sudden, hard blow; strike heavily or jarringly: " 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 n. 1. A chimney. 2. A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine. 3. A woody valley; also, a deep pool. , 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 (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. 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 (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. ; truly atomic commits An atomic commit is an operation where a set of distinct changes is applied as a single operation. If the atomic commit succeeds, it means that all the changes have been applied. ; enhanced network capabilities; more efficient handling of binary files A computer file format in which each character position can hold any one of 256 different binary codes. Binary files are contrasted to "ASCII files," which contain a smaller set of codes for only alphabetic letters, numeric digits, special symbols and a few control codes. ; 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 See collaborative 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/. About CollabNet CollabNet provides companies with solutions for on demand distributed software development by combining a Web-based software application with a suite of consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" . Using CollabNet solutions, software teams can collaborate on development across multiple locations within the extended enterprise or securely integrate business partners, contractors, or offshore development firms. CollabNet enables companies to reduce costs and increase revenues by eliminating the inefficiencies and limitations of traditional LAN-based development platforms. The CollabNet environment is being used by hundreds of thousands of developers at global 2000 and industry-leading enterprise companies around the world. For more information, see http://www.collab.net/. CollabNet is a trademark or registered trademark of CollabNet, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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