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WANdisco announce serious savings for Subversion Live events in the US and the UK
WANdisco has just announced some serious savings for Subversion Live events in the US and the UK. The 'Early Bird' packages mean conference goers can save 25 per cent on the events if they sign up before October 1. Subversion Live will be staged in Silicon Valley, Boston MA, London and Sheffield (both UK) in February 2011. There is a raft of discounts available for existing WANdisco customers and all other interesting parties so make sure you check out wandisco.com for full details on the Subversion Live events, which will deliver discussions, presentations and information on Subversion 1.7 (SVN 1.7) and the way forward, led by WANdisco's Director of Open Source, Hyrum Wright, and his team.

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Continued trans-Atlantic growth and record numbers of new customers helped WANdisco forge ahead as one of the world's leading providers of distributed software development solutions in the third quarter of 2010. A new high in subscription bookings was another key feature of our Q3 performance. A number of new customers took advantage of our guaranteed response times, 24-by-7 access to online and phone support and automated delivery of the latest fixes and upgrades amongst other class-leading services. It wasn't just the private sector - some of the foremost public sector organizations became new WANdisco customers. Between July and September one of the foremost educational establishments in the world, UCLA, and the most productive astronomical observatory on earth - European Southern Observatory - were just two of the new public sector customers successfully using WANdisco's products and services. We are now working towards the release of Subversion 1.7 and aim to finish 2010 in an even stronger position to further invest in the Subversion Community.

 
Online training

We have been providing free bi-weekly Subversion training classes over the past month and there are a number of other courses in the pipeline. The final hour-long tutorial of this month is August 25 and covers Subversion Locking, with All About Checkouts next up on September 8. Those taking part in the Subversion Locking course will learn how and when to use Subversion locking to control access to files during development. Alternatives to using locking to control file access will also be discussed you can find out more information and register here.

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What are our committers up to?

WANdisco's Subversion team has been busy preparing for the upcoming launch of Subversion 1.7 it's like putting several pieces of a jigsaw in place simultaneously. Production of the next generation working copy library continues apace while long-term core Subversion contributors, Julian Foad and Philip Martin are working with other committers to enable delivery of the last large remaining piece coalescing all metadata into a single database.

Meanwhile, we've been making additional improvements to JavaHL, the Java bindings to Apache Subversion, and working through various bug fixes. There are a number of improvements that are within our sights as we work towards the pre-release series and I look forward to explaining these in greater detail soon Hyrum Wright, Director of Open Source.

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Supporting Western Digital

WANdisco was delighted to team up with Western Digital recently. The world's leader in external storage solutions signed up to our Subversion support to ensure a better quality of service. Western Digital are now benefitting from 24-by-7 online, email and phone support, as well as automated access to the latest fixes and upgrades from WANdisco. Backed by our senior Subversion development team, QA and support professionals based in the US and the UK, Western Digital (like all WANdisco Subversion support customers) have access to secure, high quality live support on a 24-by-7 basis, regardless of where they're located.

"Access to live support professionals and senior Subversion committers who can provide immediate fixes is critical when problems arise, said David Richards, President and CEO of WANdisco. That's why Western Digital and so many other organizations that want the same level of support available with commercial enterprise software switch to WANdisco."

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Reinvesting in the community

A number of new, high caliber professionals have come on board with WANdisco in 2010 resulting from our commitment to reinvest the profits we receive from Subversion support contract sales to hire additional Subversion committers. We are dedicated to growing and nurturing the Subversion community, providing the features and resources that its users want and need.

One of our newest recruits is Erik Huelsmann, who joined WANdisco in June, having been an active contributor to the Subversion project since September 2003. Fluent in Dutch, German and English, Erik said: "The company has an incredibly talented team of senior committers, as well as customers with the largest Subversion implementations in the world. Based on their progress so far, I believe WANdisco's considerable resources and expertise will guarantee the continued success of the Subversion project."

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