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As companies consider the purchase of new software applications and development tools for their teams, open source tools are often at the top of the list in the beginning for the obvious reason, they are free. But all too often, open source solutions fail to be adopted by enterprise customers over concerns of support and longevity. No one wants to commit their entire development organization to a tool that wont be around a year from now. Subversion, however is a different story all together. It has in fact become a shining leader and example for how an open source project can be successful for large and small organizations. It has amazingly been well adopted both by traditional users of open source and within major corporations.
To find out what was behind this unheard of level of adoption for an
open source application we talked with Michael Pilato, Senior Software
Engineer and Subversion Committer and Bob Jenkins, Senior Product
Manager for
CollabNet. blotting tissues
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As companies consider the purchase of new software applications and development tools for their teams, open source tools are often at the top of the list in the beginning for the obvious reason, they are free. But all too often, open source solutions fail to be adopted by enterprise customers over concerns of support and longevity. No one wants to commit their entire development organization to a tool that wont be around a year from now.
Subversion,
however is a different story all together. It has in fact become a shining
leader and example for how an open source project can be successful for large
and small organizations. Subversion has amazingly been well adopted both by traditional
users of open source and within major corporations. With thousands of new developers taking the plunge
each month, Subversion has become the fastest growing
version control system for distributed development teams. According to
CollabNet, the originators of the Subversion project, there are
currently over one million users of Subversion.
One of the primary factors behind this phenomenal adoption rate is Subversion's similarity to CVS (Concurrent Version System) but with a vastly improved feature set. CVS is one of the pioneer version control tools and had been one of the most widely adopted version control tools in the past but it fell behind the majority of commercial tools in terms of available features and even its allure of an open source (free) application could not keep it among the front runners. Subversion picks up where CVS began but adds a scalable design able to support large distributed development teams.
What is leading to the greatest adoption of Subversion as an Enterprise tool, however, is its vibrant developer community backed by CollabNet.
"Organizations that are used to allocating a good portion of their development budgets for their version control tools, infrastructure, administrative costs and training needs are recognizing that there is finally an open source alternative that is Enterprise grade and backed by a major software provider like CollabNet," said Mike Pilato, Senior Software
Engineer and Subversion Committer.
enterprises tend not to adopt open source software even if it is quite robust without knowing that it secure and backed both by a real company and a strong developer community.
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