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San Ramon, CA June 3, 2010 – WANdisco, the enterprise Subversion company, and a corporate sponsor of the Subversion open source project with core developers from the project on staff, today announced that Erik Huelsmann is the latest core Subversion contributor to join WANdisco's open source team. Mr. Huelsmann, an active contributor to the Subversion project since September 2003, will report to Hyrum Wright, WANdisco's Director of Open Source and the release manager for the Subversion project. He, along with WANdisco's other core committers (Julian Foad, Philip Martin, Hyrum Wright and Stefan Kung) are dedicated to ensuring the Subversion open source project continues its dramatic adoption in the enterprise.

Mr. Huelsmann's contributions to the Subversion project to date include localization infrastructure, library rewrites and co-design of the new working copy library. He has also contributed to cvs2svn and other open source projects. Based in the Netherlands, Mr. Huelsmann is fluent in Dutch, German and English and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam where he teaches courses in Subversion.

"I am very pleased to be joining WANdisco," said Huelsmann. "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."

In the time that WANdisco has been involved in the Subversion project, a new Subversion roadmap has been introduced which includes a number of new features stretching out to a 2.0 release. WANdisco's Subversion engineers have developed new features in the next release including a complete rewrite of the working copy management engine to provide significant performance and scaling improvements.

"We are clearly demonstrating our continued commitment to Subversion and we're keeping our promise to plow the profits of our Subversion support business back into the project," said David Richards, President and CEO of WANdisco. "Subversion's growth in the enterprise has been nothing short of staggering and this is down to the hard work of core Subversion contributors such as Erik, Philip, Julian, Hyrum and Stefan. We are delighted and proud to have them at WANdisco."

WANdisco recently announced that the profits it receives from the sale of its Subversion support contracts go directly toward the hiring of additional Subversion committers and supporting the activities of the community. WANdisco's ability to hire senior committers such as Erik Huelsmann and others who have come on board recently reflects the success of its Subversion support services offerings.

Subversion Support, Training and Consulting Services

WANdisco's Subversion support services are backed by a dedicated team of core Subversion development, QA and support professionals, in order to provide the highest quality of service with the fastest possible delivery of fixes and upgrades. The team is led by Hyrum Wright, WANdisco's Director of Open Source. Hyrum has also been the release manager for the Subversion project since early 2008.

Support contracts include:

• 24-by-7 Online, Phone and Email Support.
• Guaranteed response times.
• Global coverage from the United States and Europe.
• Automated delivery of fixes and upgrades.
• Technical Account Managers who act as a single point of contact for critical issues.
• Security solutions that deliver automated access control and audit reporting.
• Semi-annual Subversion System Health Check.
• Bug Buddy - A senior Subversion committer who champions customer enhancement requests.

WANdisco's Subversion support services are described in detail at:
http://www.wandisco.com/products/svn/support.php.

WANdisco also sponsors and contributes to the TortoiseSVN project, which develops the popular Subversion client for Windows. As a result, WANdisco is able to offer free downloads of the latest fully tested version of TortoiseSVN at http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/os/downloads . Information about enterprise-class support for TortoiseSVN can be found at:
http://www.wandisco.com/products/svn/tortoise/support.php.

WANdisco Certified Subversion Binaries Available for Free Download

WANdisco recently announced the availability of certified Subversion 1.6.11 binaries. A free download is available at: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/os/downloads . These certified Subversion binaries undergo the same rigorous quality assurance process that WANdisco uses for its enterprise products that support the world's largest Subversion implementations with over 40,000 users, 2500 repositories and 18 million transactions per day in a single implementation.

WANdisco Offers Free Online Subversion Training

WANdisco is currently offering a series of free online one hour bi-weekly Subversion training classes through July 28, 2010. The following classes are scheduled:

• "All About Subversion Checkouts" on June 16, 2010. Although checkout is the most frequently used Subversion command, it has many options that few users are aware of. During this course, attendees will learn how to make full use of the checkout command and understand the messages it generates under different usage scenarios.
• "Using the Subversion Diff Command" on June 30, 2010. From simple to complex scenarios, the diff command can show the differences between versions of files as well as differences between Subversion projects. During this course, the instructor will cover the diff command using TortoiseSVN's difference tool as well as linking TortoiseSVN to other difference programs.
• "Branching and Merging in Subversion 1.6.9" on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. During this free one hour training session, attendees will learn everything from branching and merging basics to best practices.
• "Introduction to Subversion for Developers" on July 28, 2010. Subversion's architecture and design principles will be covered and attendees will be introduced to using Subversion.

Registration for these classes is available at: http://wandisco.com/webinar/subversion/training. WANdisco recommends early registration as space is limited.

Recent News and Resources

Free Download: Subversion Open Source:
http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/os/downloads

Subversion Professional Support:
http://www.wandisco.com/products/svn/support.php

WANdisco Subversion Enterprise:
http://www.wandisco.com/subversion

About WANdisco

WANdisco is a leading provider of infrastructure software for replication, scalability and high availability, and a corporate sponsor of the Subversion open source project with core developers from the project on staff. 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 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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