CVSDude tries to smooth out version control issues
December 31, 2008 —
When Mark Bathie was living in London in 2002 and working on collaborative open-source projects, he felt he was getting a poor user experience with SourceForge when it came to version control.
Convinced there was a market for an alternative hosted configuration management service, Bathie created CVSDude while working as a systems administrator to provide what he felt was a more secure CVS server. He hoped that his Subversion and CVS hosting software would alleviate some of the difficulties that could come from installing open-source version control applications.
That was the beginning of the Australia-based company with an eye on working out the kinks in version control. “Mark had a core belief that software companies would come to trust and embrace his hosted service for their source code management,” said Jason Seed, CEO and managing director of CVSDude. “This was back in 2002, when the application service provider model was waning and software-as-a-service had yet to gain early acceptance.”
After its first year, CVSDude had over 1,000 users, and the company was officially founded in September 2005. What makes it popular? Company executives said the key benefit of the CVSDude service is that it’s a hosted platform where developers store their project code, configure open-source version control and issue tracking tools, and can back up data every 10 minutes to onsite and offsite store nodes.
Guy Marion, executive vice president of business development for CVSDude, said the product’s hosted applications amount to a “fully-maintained collaborative development tool suite.”
“CVSDude’s technology delivers general and abstract solutions to minimize information redundancy across installations of multiple software applications,” Marion said, adding that the service lets customers configure tools like Bugzilla, CVS, Subversion and Trac, all from one user interface.
Marion went on to explain that users can also create customized fields of personal information using CVSDude. For example, user names, passwords, user groups and access rights can be filtered into the product, which then feeds the data to applications, databases and servers. CVSDude’s integrated repository browser lets users visually assign permissions, integrations, and user or group notifications.
Initially designed for small development teams, CVSDude ranges in price from US$5.99 per user per month for a two-user subscription with 250MB of storage, to $14.99 for a five-user subscription with 5GB of storage, or up to $49.99 per user per month for a 50-user subscription with 25GB of storage.
In early December, CVSDude released an Enterprise Edition of its hosted service, which Marion said caters to large organizations seeking to adopt a company-wide SaaS source control system.
The Enterprise Edition includes additional features like administrator hierarchies, where an account owner can allow sub-user groups to maintain their own permissions, live helpdesks and disaster recovery capabilities. It also opens up APIs to let enterprises create custom application that tie directly into the CVSDude service. Pricing is based on a custom quote from the company.
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