San Ramon, CA March 15th, 2010 – WANdisco, a leading provider of infrastructure software for replication, scalability, high availability and commercial sponsor of the Subversion open source project, today announced that Stefan Küng, the lead developer for TortoiseSVN has joined the company. Mr. Küng, who has been working on TortoiseSVN since its inception, will lead WANdisco's efforts to support and enhance this popular Subversion client for Windows as part of its sponsorship and support of the Subversion open source project.
WANdisco previously announced the hiring of a team of core Subversion committers led by Hyrum Wright, WANdisco's Director of Open Source. Hyrum has served as President of the Subversion Corporation and has been the Subversion project's release manager for the past two years.
"I am very pleased to be joining WANdisco," said Küng. "WANdisco has an incredibly talented team of senior committers and they have customers with the largest Subversion implementations in the world. I believe WANdisco's considerable resources and expertise guarantee the continued success of TortoiseSVN as well as the Subversion project overall."
Stefan has been the lead developer for TortoiseSVN since the beginning. In addition to his open source work, Stefan has held senior positions in software and hardware design and engineering for over ten years. He holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and is fluent in both German and English.
"We're delighted that Stefan has agreed to join us and lead our efforts to support TortoiseSVN," said David Richards, President and CEO of WANdisco. "The lack of real support for Subversion clients from other sources is always mentioned when we talk to customers and we can provide that. Our goal is to offer the best Subversion support services available and that includes not only providing support for the most popular Subversion clients, but adding enterprise features to them as well."
More information about TortoiseSVN professional support can be found at: http://www.wandisco.com/products/svn/tortoise/support.php
Subversion Support, Training and Consulting Services Now Available
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WANdisco Certified Subversion Binaries Including TortoiseSVN Now Available for Free Download
WANdisco's certified Subversion open source software is a complete, fully tested version of Subversion based on the most recent, stable release, including the latest fixes. The software is backed by our dedicated team of Subversion developers, QA and support professionals focused exclusively on delivering the highest quality version of the software. Our developers have been involved in the Subversion open source project since its inception and have the status within the community to make changes to Subversion's code base. This ensures fast delivery of fixes and enhancements. The team is led by Hyrum Wright, WA Ndisco's Director of Open Source. Hyrum is President of the Subversion Corporation and has been the release manager for Subversion since early 2008.
In combination with our enterprise-class Subversion Support Services organizations can realize all of the benefits of using open source software without any of the risks.
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New Subversion Community Site Launched
WANdisco has launched a new community-driven web site for Subversion to provide a forum for users to exchange information get the latest news from the community and get community support from experts within the community.
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Recent News and Resources:
Subversion Open Source User Community
http://subversion.wandisco.com
Subversion 1.7 Planned for Summer 2010 Release:
http://www.wandisco.com/php/pr.php?prdate=2010-02-17
Webinar Replay: Subversion in 2010 and Beyond:
http://www.wandisco.com/media/webinar-replays
Webinar Replay: Make Subversion Agile:
http://www.wandisco.com/media/webinar-replays
WANdisco Subversion Clustering:
http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/clustering
WANdisco Subversion MultiSite:
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About WANdisco
WANdisco is a leading provider of distributed software development solutions. By using WANdisco's totally unique replication technology, software development can now occur anywhere without any constraints. Fortune Global 1000 companies such as AT&T, Honda, NTT and Motorola rely on WANdisco's suite of source code management solutions. A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) study of WANdisco's Subversion MultiSite revealed a 167% return on investment with a nine month payback period. WANdisco is also a corporate sponsor of the open source Subversion project, and plays an active role with core developers from the project on staff. Subversion is recognized by Forrester as the sole leader in the Standalone Software Configuration Management (SCM) category. For more information, please visit us at http://www.wandisco.com.
About TortoiseSVN
TortoiseSVN is an award-winning Subversion client, implemented as a Microsoft Windows shell extension and can be integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License. In 2007 TortoiseSVN won the SourceForge.net Community Choice Award for Best Tool or Utility for Developers.
About Subversion
Subversion (SVN) is a version control system initiated in 2000. It is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly-compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). In a 2007 report by Forrester Research, Subversion was recognized as the sole leader in the Standalone Software Configuration Management (SCM) category and a strong performer in the Software Configuration and Change Management (SCCM) category.
Subversion is released under the Apache License, making it free software.
For more information, please visit us at http://subversion.wandisco.com
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