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Five things (we bet ) you did not know about Subversion
Subversion® has become the version control standard for developers around the world. Whether you are in a regulated industry or just demand better controls in configuration management, Subversion provides the robust, centralized version control functionality chosen to replace legacy systems. After tenyears of community social development and now a successful Apache Foundation project, Subversion is secure and mature for the complexity of modern application development at any scale. 1. APACHE® SUBVERSION IS STILL NUMBER ONE. CollabNet started the original Subversion project in 2000 as the next generation of open source revision control systems. The evolution of Subversion was to meet thedemand of the new distributed and multi-source model of development. The wide-spread acceptance has made Subversion the most used source code management system in the world with an estimated five million users or about 50 percent of developers. But the real telling numbers is the number of open positions looking for Subversion expertise.

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2. APPLY ECONOMIC LOGIC TO YOUR MIGRATION DECISIONS. Sometimes the best decision is to do nothing. Often a company may presume that migration of structure and metadata is a requirement for user adoption and for a viable useful Source Code Management (SCM) system. Considerations to be made are what are the costs, effort and complexity? A good analysis can help in avoidingweeks or months of migration attempts as well as cleaning up corrupted and unstable data. 3. ADMINISTER YOUR REPOSITORIES FROM ONE CONSOLE. CollabNet Subversion Edge is the answer for easy installation, administration, security and governance of your Subversion environment. A certified software stack of the latest versions of Apache Subversion®, Apache, and ViewVC are combined into a singleinstaller. All this is fronted by a powerful and secure Web-based console. It’s FREE and completely open source. 4. PLUG AND PLAY WITH ALL THE BEST IDES. Treat all tiers of the application and developers consistently as equally important first-class citizens. Subversion integrates well with development tools and environments as a way to make all types of developers equal partners in the development processand aligns to the tools and practices of the developers. For an application to be truly atomic under source control – for all its components to be successfully versioned into a single revision – the data layer must coexist as an equal partner with the other application tiers. Developers can then have confidence in the integrity of the repository and know that any single revision has an entirepicture of the application.

5. SPEND YOUR MICROSOFT® BUDGET ON YOUR PEOPLE. Subversion has a dramatically lower cost of ownership compared to commercial systems. Not only is it a free download, deployment costs are lower too. While other systems can require as many as one administrator for 20 developers, Subversion repositories are often maintained by a single administrator for 100s ofdevelopers. Subversion’s IT infrastructure requirements are also minimal and the system scales well from an initial departmental implementation to a full enterprise-wide deployment. Spend your budget on developing your people with web-based training and interactive workshops to institute best practices in configuration management. SUBVERSION READY FOR THE ENTERPRISE To help companies deploy Subversion...