CollabNet, the primary sponsor of the Subversion version control system project, has announced the newly expanded SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4 collaboration platform. New features include enhancements to the Tracker issue-report function, new project-categorisation capabilities and improved integration with many third-party software configuration management tools.
The platform's open architecture enables globally distributed software development teams to use web services to integrate their development environments. SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4 is the first update to the development platform since CollabNet acquired SourceForge's software business in April.
"Prior to the acquisition, CollabNet and SourceForge were the only two collaborative software development companies to use the internet and web services as the infrastructure to power their platforms. Now that we have SourceForge on board, we do not intend to let the product die off. Rather, we want to actually extend support for the product before bringing the technology into a single stream alongside CollabNet's technology stack and the work that we do with Subversion," said Bas Nijjer, CollabNet's general manager for the UK.
Version 4.4 can help organisations who want to utilise Soap web services to optimise development tools and processes, and it can accelerate development efficiency on a global scale with minimal disruption.
SourceForge Enterprise Edition's integrated suite of development tools provides control over critical project tasks and assets by integrating disparate development intellectual property and tools on a common development platform, while automatically keeping team members appraised of deadlines and task assignments.
SourceForge creates and 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 up project decisions.
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The technology is closely related to IBM's Jazz offering, which was announced in June. A scalable Eclipse-based team collaboration platform, Jazz is targeted at organisationally and geographically dispersed development teams.
"Subversion is a software configuration management-focused solution. Jazz is focused on integration across the whole development lifecycle. This means that Jazz is essentially a middleware infrastructure technology, if you like. It is not a replacement for Eclipse," said Lee Nackman, IBM's vice president of product development and support.
