CollabNet to Sponsor Subversion MeetUp at ApacheCon North America 2010

Open Discussion on Subversion Topics For Software Developers and Users. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) November 06, 2010 - BRISBANE, Calif - CollabNet®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management ( Agile ALM) in the Cloud, announced today that it will sponsor the Subversion MeetUp at ApacheCon North America 2010. The event features an open agenda aimed at bringing together developers and users of Subversion to improve the project and the software it produces. CollabNet's Chief Technology Officer Jack Repenning, Senior Software Engineer/Version Control Team Leader Mike Pilato, and Subversion Practice Manager Bob Jenkins are scheduled to attend. Discussion topics will include the Apache Software Foundation and the Subversion roadmap.

CollabNet founded the industry-leading Subversion open source project in 2000 and remains the project's principal sponsor. Earlier this month, CollabNet extended its leadership in the Subversion arena with the acquisition of Codesion, the world's leading enterprise-grade Subversion hosting platform. The acquisition joined Codesion's 3,400 customers with CollabNet's hosted Subversion community, the largest and most vibrant in the world. Prior to the acquisition, CollabNet hosted more than 3,250,000 Subversion users as part of its enterprise Cloud services, provided more than 200 Subversion clients, servers, and plug-ins, delivered dozens of Subversion and Agile Web-based and instructor-led courses, and offered many other community-related services as part of its 600,000 member openCollabNet community.

ApacheCon North America 2010 will be held Nov. 1-5 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Ga. The Subversion MeetUp will take place on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 8:00 p.m. in Room 1. CollabNet is a Bronze Sponsor of the conference. More information is available at http://na.apachecon.com/c/acna2010/.

Repenning will also speak on a panel titled "The Business of Open Source-Power, Prestige, and Propulsion," which will address such topics as customer requirements, application opportunities, deployment challenges, best practices, product development, standards compliance, business model disruptors, and more. The panel will be held Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 11:00 a.m. in Room 4.

WHO: CollabNet Participants:
Jack Repenning, Chief Technology Officer
Mike Pilato, Senior Software Engineer / Version Control Team Leader
Bob Jenkins, Subversion Practice Manager

WHAT: ApacheCon North America 2010 Subversion MeetUp

WHEN: 8:00 p.m., EDT, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010

WHERE: ApacheCon North America 2010
Atlanta - Room 1
The Westin Peachtree Plaza
210 Peachtree Street Northwest
Atlanta, GA 30303

About CollabNet

CollabNet is the leader in Agile application lifecycle management ( Agile ALM) in the Cloud. The CollabNet TeamForge ALM platform, CollabNet Subversion software configuration management ( SCM) solution, and ScrumWorks® project and program management software enable teams using any environment, methodology, and technology to increase productivity by up to 50% and to reduce the cost of software development by up to 80%. CollabNet products are offered in the Cloud on the Codesion hosting platform and also in on-premise versions. As the founder of the open source Subversion project, CollabNet has collaborative development for distributed teams in its DNA. Millions of users at nearly 6,000 organizations, including Applied Biosystems, Capgemini, Deutsche Bank, Thomson Reuters, and the U.S. Department of Defense, have transformed the way they develop software with CollabNet. For more information, visit http://www.collab.net.

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