CollabNet acquires Codesion

BRISBANE, USA: CollabNet, a provider of Agile application lifecycle management (Agile ALM) in the cloud, recently announced that it has acquired Codesion, Inc. (formerly CVSDude), which provides enterprise-grade Subversion hosting platform and serves more than 3,400 customers and 70,000 users in 90 countries.

CollabNet founded the Subversion open source project in 2000 and remains the project’s principal sponsor, said a press release. Codesion’s provisioning technology delivers Subversion, Git, and other applications as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, helping developers to code, connect, and deploy in the Cloud, it added.

CollabNet said the acquisition marks an aggressive move by the company into cross-platform, Cloud-based developer services. However, it did not divulge the terms of the deal.

“CollabNet’s acquisition is a natural fit for Codesion and our customer community,” said Guy Marion, chief executive officer, Codesion. “Our users were seeking version control training and best practices around Agile development, which is now available from CollabNet’s Subversion developers and Certified Scrum Trainers.”

He said a new workgroup-centric version of TeamForge now also provides a free, ‘one click’ upgrade path to CollabNet’s award-winning Agile ALM platform.

CollabNet said the Codesion hosting services are available in Team, Professional, and Enterprise editions. Codesion enables developers to securely host and procure Subversion in the Cloud, integrate it with Trac, Basecamp, TeamForge, and more, and deploy directly to Cloud hosting providers such as Joyent and Amazon, it added.

CollabNet also announced the immediate availability of CollabNet TeamForge Project, an on-demand multi-tenant version of CollabNet TeamForge.

“Using APIs from Codesion and oDesk, we’ve been able to seamlessly offer Codesion’s easy-to-use and highly secure platform to the hundreds of thousands of software contractors in our marketplace,” said Gary Swart, chief executive officer, oDesk.

“Now, with CollabNet, professional teams working on oDesk will have an easy on-ramp to an additional set of Agile development tools, training, and services to securely code and collaborate in the Cloud,” he said.