Munich, Germany, SubConf 2007, October 17, 2007 — Polarion Software, creators of the first
comprehensive application lifecycle platform based on Subversion, and the Subversion
Corporation today announced that Polarion will donate the subversion.com domain name, which
it owns, to the Subversion Corporation. The Subversion Corporation was recently formed as a
non-profit stewardship organization to further the continuing development and adoption of
Subversion, the market-leading open source version control software.
The joint announcement came during the SubConf 2007 conference in Munich, the first global
forum for organizations involved in the practical strategies of migrating to Subversion.
Karl Fogel, president of The Subversion Corporation, said, "On behalf of the Subversion project, I
wish to thank Polarion for their constructive engagement with the Subversion Corporation and for
supporting the long-term interests and growing community around Subversion."
Polarion originally registered the subversion.com domain in 2004, when it became apparent
Subversion would become the de facto successor to CVS, an earlier open-source version control
system. As one of the first companies to develop both open source and commercial products
designed around the Subversion system, Polarion envisioned an online environment where
commercial vendors with Subversion-based products could promote their offerings. The goal was
to help advance the market’s general adoption of the open source Subversion technology.
Said Frank Schröder, CEO at Polarion, "As a company with commercial products based around
open source frameworks like Subversion, Polarion Software has always had an interest in
supporting and helping to grow the open source Subversion community. With the formation of
Polarion Donates Domain to Subversion Corporation
The Subversion Corporation, it now makes sense for that body, which represents the open
source Subversion community, to take over the subversion.com domain and move forward on
related website projects. Polarion Software is pleased to contribute in this way."
Schröder continues, “Polarion's web sites have become valuable resources for both commercial
and free or open source projects, offering tools, training, software solutions, and forums that help
Subversion users gain maximum benefit from the powerful system. That support of the
Subversion community will remain unchanged since existing subversion.com content will remain
on the www.polarion.org site previously mirrored at subversion.com.”
During the transition, Polarion’s Subversion-related free and open source projects, including SVN
Importer, SubTrain and SVN WebClient, will be relocated to tigris.org, where the Subversion
development project itself is hosted. This change will consolidate more Subversion community
developer tools and resources at the web location where Subversion development is coordinated.
For more information on Polarion Software, visit http://www.polarion.com. More information on
The Subversion Corporation is available at http://www.subversion.org and information on the
continuing development of Subversion as an open source project can be found at
http://subversion.tigris.org.
About Polarion Software
Polarion Software is a global leader of comprehensive application lifecycle solutions and services
for effectively and efficiently managing the software development lifecycle. Polarion ALM for
Subversion combines every major phase of managing the software development lifecycle into
one comprehensive ALM platform that provides teams with the real-time information on the actual
state of software development in their organization necessary to make intelligent, informed
decisions, while leveraging Subversion and other advanced open source technologies to deliver
unique functionality and a significant return on investment. Additional information is available at
www.polarion.com.
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