Collabnet plans to launch ver 6.0

BANGALORE: Collabnet a leading player of collaboration software revealed that it plans to release  its next generation collaboration software - Collabnet 6.0 based on Sourceforge's enterprise edition software acquisition.  “We are coming out with a new release Collabnet 6.0, which will be a combination of our enterprise edition -  CollabNet Enterprise Edition (CEE) and Sourceforge enterprise edition,”said Anil Bakshi, country head - India, Collabnet in an interview with CIOL. The new  version  slated to be released during the last quarter of 2009, is a combination of both the products. 

 It will be an open and scalable platform supporting the needs of large SaaS and BTF (Behind The Firewall)  installations, said Bakshi. “The product will support easy integration with other point tools through an integration framework. It will have a usability related improvements, tracker based enhancements, new reporting infrastructure, continuous build integration support  and build & test support through tighter integration with CollabNet CUBiT.”

The company aims to target its current users as well as new customers for the new product and plans to give an upgrade path for both Sourceforge and CEE customers.

With enterprises aiming to optimise hardware resources to the maximum, Collbanet's CUBiT 2.0  introduces cloud management for distributed development teams. “Teams manage reusable build and test configurations as profiles to allocate physical and virtual servers on-demand in a private corporate data center or public cloud, like Amazon EC2,”says Bakshi.  “CUBiT reduces significant cost and time Configuring servers for the code, build, and test cycle is 10 times faster, and teams save up to 90 per cent  of hard costs by centralizing development tool, server.”

Collaboration software has to a large extent become the life-blood of IT organisations conforming to the global delivery model in the IT services spectrum.  Collabnet boasts of  8 million users, 700 companies, 20,000 software projects on its network.

According to Bakshi, by simplifying distributed development, enabling global collaboration, and providing on-demand development resources, the CollabNet Platform has helped hundreds of customers and over 1.8 million users reduce costs and risks, improve productivity, and accelerate innovation for software projects.

CollabNet is also behind the opensource initiative Subversion, a popular Software Configuration Management (SCM) system for distributed teams.

CIOL Bureau