Product Enhancements Further Strengthen Distributed Development
Capabilities and Reinforce CollabNet’s
Continued Commitment to SourceForge Customers
BRISBANE, Calif.--CollabNet, the primary sponsor of the Subversion™
project and leading provider of collaborative software development
solutions, today announced the immediate availability of SourceForge
Enterprise Edition 4.4. New features in this release include significant
enhancements to Tracker, new project categorization capabilities and
improved integration to a wide range of software configuration
management (SCM) tools, including support for Subversion multi-site.
This release further extends the platform’s
open architecture, enabling distributed development organizations to
leverage web services to integrate the SourceForge framework into their
existing development environment.
SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4 is the first update to the
development platform since CollabNet acquired SourceForge’s
software business on April 24, 2007. The combined business now supports
more than 350 enterprise customers with over 1.2 million developers who
use CollabNet development tools every day, in dozens of countries around
the globe.
“Software is ubiquitous in today’s
world; increasingly software is becoming one of the most critical
differentiating items that determine the commercial success of a
product, from hi-tech systems to cell phones and consumer electronics,
from banking to automotive and medical devices," said Bill Portelli, CEO
of CollabNet. “To meet the demand for high
quality software, organizations increasingly rely on collaborative
development techniques where software engineers, technology partners and
customers collaborate as one team on one or several projects from
anywhere in the world. CollabNet is the recognized pioneer and leader in
globally distributed development. The SourceForge development platform,
its open architecture and new capabilities in version 4.4 raise the bar
for organizations who want to leverage their existing IT investments by
utilizing SOAP web services to optimize development tools and processes
and to accelerate development efficiency on a global-scale, with minimal
disruption.”
SourceForge Enterprise Edition’s integrated
suite of development tools provide for greater control over critical
project tasks and assets by seamlessly integrating disparate development
IP and tools onto a common development platform, while automatically
keeping team members apprised of critical deadlines and task
assignments. SourceForge enables associations between team
communications and related documents, digital assets, issues, and
activities. This unified approach to development projects helps
distributed teams reduce miscommunication, improve accuracy, and speed
critical project decisions.
“A unique attribute of SourceForge, and a key
differentiator from our customers’
perspective, is the robustness and openness of the SourceForge
architecture,” said Richard Murray, CollabNet’s
vice president of engineering. “A growing
number of development organizations are choosing SourceForge as their
core software development platform because of its adaptability and broad
integration capabilities. Unlike conventional development tools,
SourceForge is built to tie together and optimize heterogeneous
development systems across globally distributed teams without the need
to replace existing tools or development methodologies.”
Enhancements in SourceForge 4.4 are designed to help distributed teams
further improve collaboration and communication to deliver
higher-quality software while accelerating development productivity of
distributed teams. New capabilities include:
-- Improved project management and team coordination and more
flexible support for Requirements Management -- from agile to
waterfall methodologies. Developers can break down artifacts
into unlimited parent-child relationships, create
cross-project tracker dependencies, easily identify and
manage blocking issues and change the field order in the
artifact listing.
-- Tracker administrators can now use new flex fields to add
multiple user selections to Tracker artifacts and select
dates from a pop-up calendar view to simplify the management
of issues, defects, requests and more.
-- Users now have the ability to more quickly identify and
manage data of interest in personalized views using saved
filters, saved searches and customizable columns. Also
SourceForge Enterprise Edition utilizes an AJAX-based
solution to provide simple field ordering for further
user-specific customization.
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Project categorization: Improved browsing capabilities to
search through a project’s taxonomy and
quickly find associated projects and downloads, resulting in increased
visibility into development projects, its associated resources and
assets. It also improves the reusability of development assets and
cross-team collaboration.
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Software configuration management: SourceForge Enterprise
Edition also offers extended support and integration of a wide range
of SCM tools, including IBM®
Rational ClearCase®
to consolidate disparate SCM data. Additionally, several newly added
security enhancements between SourceForge Enterprise Edition and SCM
servers help improve performance and security via SSL-based encrypted
server communication and CVS LDAP authentication.
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Support for Subversion multi-site: With Subversion multi-site
replication support, globally distributed development teams can
synchronize projects in real time regardless of location and network
speed. This allows developers in other locations to collaborate on the
same source code as if they were local, achieving local commit and
access times while maintaining full security and source code coherency.
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Customization: Site administrators can modify the look and feel
of the application and implement feature customizations using Velocity
templates.
“Our R&D investment exemplifies our
commitment to the SourceForge Enterprise Edition platform and to
promoting the benefits of collaboration and distributed software
development to our customers and independent developer communities,”
said Bill Portelli, CEO of CollabNet. “With
the successful acquisition and integration of SourceForge’s
software business completed, we’re now
focused on accelerating growth and providing the highest level of
support our customers have come to expect from CollabNet.”
For more information about SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4, you
can download a product overview white paper at http://www.collab.net/news/library/
or view a recorded demo of SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4 “What’s
new in SFEE 4.4” at http://www.collab.net/sfee_demo.
CollabNet acquired SourceForge’s software
business earlier this year, bringing the two leading collaborative
software development solutions for distributed teams under the same
roof. The combined entity supports more than 350 enterprise customers
with over 1.2 million users in dozens of countries worldwide.
SourceForge Enterprise Edition, along with CollabNet’s
entire product portfolio - CollabNet Enterprise Edition, CollabNet CUBiTTM,
and CollabNet Subversion - continues to be supported and enhanced over
time. SourceForge customers around the world now benefit from CollabNet’s
extensive, global support infrastructure, including around the clock
support, as well as accelerated innovation due to an increased research
and development staff.
About CollabNet
With 1.2 million users, CollabNet is the most widely used platform for
distributed software development and collaborative lifecycle management.
Now combined with SourceForge Enterprise Edition, the company is
transforming the way in which software is being developed by enabling
companies to leverage global development talents and resources to
deliver better products, innovate faster and reduce development
infrastructure costs by 50%.
CollabNet is the primary sponsor of Subversion, a core component in
CollabNet’s portfolio of software development
products: CollabNet Subversion and CollabNet Enterprise Subversion
enable enterprises to safely deploy Subversion by providing governance,
advanced security and effective user and project administration around
Subversion. CollabNet Enterprise Edition and SourceForge Enterprise
Edition deliver an integrated platform for collaborative application
lifecycle management that enables project members to work as one team
throughout the project lifecycle regardless of their location. CollabNet’s
CUBiT provides distributed development organizations with a
ground-breaking virtualization solution to centrally and dynamically
provision build and test environments.
openCollabNet® (www.open.collab.net)
is an online extension to CollabNet; this Web 2.0 community dedicated to
developers using Subversion and CollabNet offers discussion forums,
in-depth technical information, product extensions, and free downloads
of CollabNet’s and partners’
products.
More than 350 industry leading companies use CollabNet’s
solutions today, including Reuters, Philips Medical Systems, Capgemini,
and Barclays Global Investors among others. Visit CollabNet at http://www.collab.net
or get more information about Subversion at http://www.collab.net/subversion.
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