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Microsoft acquires Teamprise for Java foothold

By David Worthington

November 9, 2009 — With today's acquisition of SourceGear's Teamprise solution, Microsoft has obtained technology to allow Visual Studio Team System to be used across platforms as a unified application life-cycle management solution for developers.

Teamprise makes Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio's data storage and collaboration back end, accessible from the Eclipse IDE on Linux, Mac OS X and Unix.

Why would Microsoft support Eclipse? "It's all about money,” said Jeffrey Hammond, a principal analyst for Forrester Research. "They stand to make a decent amount of money by providing a single ALM solution that can work in large organizations that do both Java and .NET development."

Hammond explained that Visual Studio Team System was disqualified for purchase as an ALM solution by many organizations for failing to support Eclipse out of the box. "This fixes that problem," he said.

The Teamprise solution consists of Eclipse plug-ins, a standalone module for accessing TFS, and a command-line utility. It will become available around March 22 as a standalone product that is backward compatible with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, and will also be included in the Ultimate edition of Visual Studio 2010.

TFS is the backbone of Microsoft's ALM solution. Visual Studio 2010 adds new artifact collection, project tracking, reporting, and source control capabilities to TFS, which Microsoft says will help developers work more efficiently.

With Teamprise and TFS, developers can collaborate and have work items and requirement definitions kept within a single repository, said Doug Seven, senior product manager for Visual Studio. He added that TFS also gives organizations more visibility into projects. "We are enabling the TFS infrastructure to be used by developers as they swivel between Eclipse and Visual Studio."

Microsoft will continue to update Teamprise's technology for future releases of TFS, and it will maintain its cross-platform support, Seven said.

"We have built a bridge to Java developers," said Dave Mendlen, senior director of developer marketing at Microsoft. "Microsoft recognizes that there are heterogeneous development shops. TFS will help deliver greater business results regardless of what tool or platform people use."

When asked why Microsoft has not yet added Java support to Visual Studio, Seven said that its Visual Studio partners' tools address that need.

"We have looked at Java and have not competed in that realm," he said. "What customers demand is what we are going to look at, and we will look at that demand again in the future."

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