Subversion Gains Momentum
CollabNet’s system could replace CVS in market, says analyst
January 15, 2007 —
Last year saw a fairly big rise in the use of Subversion, as a number of organizations switched from the more familiar CVS to the open-source version control system created by CollabNet. CollabNet claims that by last November there were roughly 63,145 servers running Subversion.
According to Thomas Murphy, a research analyst at Gartner, Subversion has become the standard platform for open-source projects. Even though not many organizations have fully dumped the version control systems they already had to adopt Subversion at this point, Murphy said, it has matured into a product that can potentially replace CVS in the market.
‘ANOINTED SUCCESSOR’
“I guess you could say it’s the anointed successor to CVS,” said Murphy. “It does a lot of things better than what CVS will do. Functionally, it’s a much richer product overall.” Murphy said that Gartner has not published any numerical counts regarding Subversion, though it may begin to count those statistics this year.
“We really see a pickup of Subversion in the enterprise,” Isabelle Dumont, senior director of product marketing for CollabNet, told SD Times. “What Subversion brings into the equation is the ability to roll out those tools into a distributed environment.” Dumont said that the number of inquiries to CollabNet for Subversion over the past six months has tripled.
Project managers and heads of development teams have been rolling out Subversion for more users, and many have made use of CollabNet’s training program and other resources. Dumont also said that vendors such as Philips Medical Systems have integrated with Subversion because of its collaborative development platform, and so has Eclipse. “Developers [on the Eclipse project] can share code and can discuss with [other developers] all the code being stored and secured in Subversion,” she said.
Philips, a Dutch company that creates systems for imaging, radiation oncology, patient monitoring and other forms of health care, adopted Subversion in order to make versions of code developed for its imaging systems. According to CollabNet, Subversion has become part of Philips’ standard development infrastructure.
United Airlines has also worked with CollabNet to migrate many of its Java-based projects to Subversion.
Helping to lead the way down the growing path to Subversion, CollabNet’s Subversion Web site, open.collab.net, serves as an online community that provides customers with knowledge of Subversion. There is also space to ask questions of other users of the product and discussion forums to share tips.
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