PKWARE Switches from Microsoft Visual SourceSafe to Seapine's Surround SCM to Better Manage Source Code during Parallel Development.MASON, Ohio Mason is a city in southwestern Warren County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, Mason's population was 22,016. It was the fastest-growing and most populous city in the county. Until February 1997, it was part of Deerfield Township. -- Seapine Software Seapine Software is a privately-held, Mason, Ohio-based software and services company whose products address software application lifecycle management and quality assurance. , Inc., a leading provider of adaptable application lifecycle management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. (AALM AALM adaptable application lifecycle management AALM All-Ages Lead Model AALM American Alliance for Loan Management ) solutions, today announced that PKWARE, Inc. has replaced its current source code management system, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) is a source control software package oriented towards smaller software development projects. Overview SourceSafe was created by a company called One Tree Software. The first version known was 3. , with Seapine's Surround SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. . PKWARE, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise solutions for portable data security, will use Surround SCM to manage complex source code changes and builds during their parallel software development operations. PKWARE performed an extensive evaluation of 12 source code management products and chose Seapine's cross-platform Surround SCM because of its advanced branching model, low administration costs, process automation capabilities, and advanced feature set. "PKWARE required a product that was flexible enough to support the multi-platform development that we require as we move forward to create the next generation of data security products," said Joe Sturonas, Chief Technology Officer at PKWARE. PKWARE reviewers also selected Surround SCM because of its flexibility to adapt to the company's specific development requirements and Seapine's responsive customer support. According to Tom Francis, Software Architect at PKWARE, "Most software configuration management tools expect users to conform their processes to the tool, and usually involve IT support to implement. Surround SCM was sophisticated enough to work with our complex development environment, and Seapine's high level of responsiveness is impressive." PKWARE plans to integrate Surround SCM with Seapine's defect tracking tool, TestTrack Pro, to enable its development teams to track and manage issues, feature requests, change requests, and other tasks throughout the product lifecycle. Competitive Upgrade Through August 31, Seapine is offering a free, single named Surround SCM user license per company to switch from Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 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. , or Merant/Intersolv PVCS A popular system of version control and configuration management software from Serena Software, Inc., San Mateo, CA, that runs on DOS, Windows, OS/2 and various Unix platforms. It is widely used on PC-based LANs. to Seapine's source code management solution. For details, visit http://www.seapine.com/pkware.html. About Seapine Software Seapine Software, Inc., located in Mason, Ohio, develops industry-leading solutions for software development. Seapine's scalable product line automates the software development lifecycle. More than 7,500 companies worldwide use Seapine's products to develop higher quality software solutions. For more information about Seapine Software and its products, visit http://www.seapine.com. About PKWARE, Inc. PKWARE, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise solutions for secure and efficient data transfer and storage, is the creator and continuing innovator of the ZIP standard. ZIP is the most widely used method for data compression on Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Linux, iSeries, zSeries and other computing platforms. PKWARE's customer base includes 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies including significant installations in 12 of the 13 top U.S. banks, major health care companies, federal agencies and state governments, and 50 percent of the top telecom, retail, and manufacturing companies. In 2004, PKWARE announced the SecureZIP product family, which extends the ZIP file format to include the ability to add strong authentication and encryption to ZIP archives, making it possible not only to compress files, but also to prevent unauthorized access and modification. For more information about PKWARE, visit http://www.pkware.com. |
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