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 Title: Celebrating a Decade of Open Source Leadership
 license: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

 ( [Plain Text Version](pr_2009_11_04.txt) )
 <h2>Subversion Submitted to Become a Project at The Apache Software
 Foundation</h2>
 Award-Winning Open Source Version Control and Software Configuration
 Management Tool to Benefit from Stewardship, Technology, and Community
 Synergies

 OAKLAND, Calif., APACHECON US 2009, Nov. 4, 2009 — The
 CollabNet-sponsored Subversion project and The Apache Software Foundation
 (ASF) announced today that the award-winning Open Source project has
 formally submitted itself to the Apache Incubator in order to become part
 of the Foundation's efforts.

 The incubation of Subversion is the first step to becoming an ASF Top-Level
 Project. The Subversion community will join more than 130 Open Source
 initiatives overseen by the ASF, and will benefit from the Foundation’s
 widely-emulated meritocratic process, stewardship, outreach, support, and
 community events.

 The Subversion project and Apache Software Foundation have a long and
 intertwined history: many of the same people founded and continue to
 actively contribute to both organizations. The communities also work
 closely together, often utilizing capabilities of their respective
 products: all of the ASF's projects use Subversion for source code version
 control, and Subversion itself relies on many Apache projects such as
 Apache Portable Runtime (APR) and HTTP Web Server. For nearly a decade, the
 communities have benefited from open feedback channels, where requirements
 from the Subversion project have helped drive new features to various
 Apache projects, and vice versa.

 "We are happy to welcome the Subversion development community to the Apache
 Incubator," said Justin Erenkrantz, President of The Apache Software
 Foundation. "Since its inception, the Subversion community has modeled
 itself using many of the Foundation's principles, including the Apache
 license, our voting structure, and building upon a diverse range of
 contributors. Through organizational, legal, financial, and infrastructure
 support, the ASF's proven framework will help the Subversion community to
 do what it does best: provide valuable software to millions of developers
 around the globe. It's a natural fit."

 While Subversion is undergoing incubation at the ASF, CollabNet will
 continue to host the project at http://subversion.tigris.org. In addition,
 third party-certified binaries of the software configuration management
 system will continue to be available from CollabNet, as well as from other
 vendors, both during and after the incubation period.

 "Becoming an Apache incubating project is a terrific move for our growing
 developer community," said Subversion Corporation President Hyrum Wright.
 "We are grateful to CollabNet for their long-standing support over the past
 ten years, and look forward to continuing to work together as we further
 expand Subversion as part of the ASF."

 Many companies use Subversion, along with popular Apache projects such as
 Ant and Maven, as part of their overall application lifecycle management
 strategy. As the Subversion architecture complements so many Apache
 projects, it is fitting that the project be stewarded by the same
 organization and governed under the same processes.

 "The Apache Tomcat / Subversion / Apache Maven stack has become the leading
 code and build management stack for the Java community," said Bill
 Portelli, chief executive officer, CollabNet. "There is a natural synergy
 between the Subversion project and the ASF, and we anticipate expanded
 developer contributions and deeper integrations with other Apache projects,
 benefiting developers worldwide."

 CollabNet is a Silver Sponsor of ApacheCon US 2009, being held November
 2-6, 2009 in Oakland, CA. For more information about Subversion, visit the
 CollabNet booth at the conference Expo Hall.

 To download and experience Subversion, please visit
 http://subversion.tigris.org. Further information on the Apache Incubator
 is available at http://incubator.apache.org/.

 ### About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ###

 Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than
 seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the
 world's most popular Web server software. Through The ASF's meritocratic
 process known as "The Apache Way," nearly 300 individual Members and 2,000
 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available
 enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide:
 thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License;
 and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring
 initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation’s official user conference,
 trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and
 corporate sponsors including Google, HP, Microsoft, Progress Software,
 SpringSource, and Yahoo! For more information, visit
 http://www.apache.org/.

 ### About CollabNet ###

 CollabNet is the leader in application lifecycle management (ALM) platforms
 for distributed software development teams. CollabNet TeamForge is the
 industry’s most open ALM platform, supporting every environment,
 methodology, and technology. With an integrated suite of easy-to-use tools
 that share a centralized repository, it is the only ALM platform that
 enables a culture of collaboration, improving productivity 10-50% and
 reducing the cost of software development by up to 80%. As the corporate
 sponsor of the open source Subversion project, the best version control and
 software configuration management (SCM) solution for distributed teams,
 collaborative development is in CollabNet’s DNA. Millions of users at
 more than 800 organizations, including Applied Biosystems, Capgemini,
 Deutsche Bank, Oracle, Reuters, and the U.S. Department of Defense, have
 transformed the way they develop software with CollabNet. For more
 information, visit www.collab.net.
	Title: Celebrating a Decade of Open Source Leadership
	license: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

	( [Plain Text Version](pr_2009_11_04.txt) )
	<h2>Subversion Submitted to Become a Project at The Apache Software
	Foundation</h2>
	Award-Winning Open Source Version Control and Software Configuration
	Management Tool to Benefit from Stewardship, Technology, and Community
	Synergies

	OAKLAND, Calif., APACHECON US 2009, Nov. 4, 2009 — The
	CollabNet-sponsored Subversion project and The Apache Software Foundation
	(ASF) announced today that the award-winning Open Source project has
	formally submitted itself to the Apache Incubator in order to become part
	of the Foundation's efforts.

	The incubation of Subversion is the first step to becoming an ASF Top-Level
	Project. The Subversion community will join more than 130 Open Source
	initiatives overseen by the ASF, and will benefit from the Foundation’s
	widely-emulated meritocratic process, stewardship, outreach, support, and
	community events.

	The Subversion project and Apache Software Foundation have a long and
	intertwined history: many of the same people founded and continue to
	actively contribute to both organizations. The communities also work
	closely together, often utilizing capabilities of their respective
	products: all of the ASF's projects use Subversion for source code version
	control, and Subversion itself relies on many Apache projects such as
	Apache Portable Runtime (APR) and HTTP Web Server. For nearly a decade, the
	communities have benefited from open feedback channels, where requirements
	from the Subversion project have helped drive new features to various
	Apache projects, and vice versa.

	"We are happy to welcome the Subversion development community to the Apache
	Incubator," said Justin Erenkrantz, President of The Apache Software
	Foundation. "Since its inception, the Subversion community has modeled
	itself using many of the Foundation's principles, including the Apache
	license, our voting structure, and building upon a diverse range of
	contributors. Through organizational, legal, financial, and infrastructure
	support, the ASF's proven framework will help the Subversion community to
	do what it does best: provide valuable software to millions of developers
	around the globe. It's a natural fit."

	While Subversion is undergoing incubation at the ASF, CollabNet will
	continue to host the project at http://subversion.tigris.org. In addition,
	third party-certified binaries of the software configuration management
	system will continue to be available from CollabNet, as well as from other
	vendors, both during and after the incubation period.

	"Becoming an Apache incubating project is a terrific move for our growing
	developer community," said Subversion Corporation President Hyrum Wright.
	"We are grateful to CollabNet for their long-standing support over the past
	ten years, and look forward to continuing to work together as we further
	expand Subversion as part of the ASF."

	Many companies use Subversion, along with popular Apache projects such as
	Ant and Maven, as part of their overall application lifecycle management
	strategy. As the Subversion architecture complements so many Apache
	projects, it is fitting that the project be stewarded by the same
	organization and governed under the same processes.

	"The Apache Tomcat / Subversion / Apache Maven stack has become the leading
	code and build management stack for the Java community," said Bill
	Portelli, chief executive officer, CollabNet. "There is a natural synergy
	between the Subversion project and the ASF, and we anticipate expanded
	developer contributions and deeper integrations with other Apache projects,
	benefiting developers worldwide."

	CollabNet is a Silver Sponsor of ApacheCon US 2009, being held November
	2-6, 2009 in Oakland, CA. For more information about Subversion, visit the
	CollabNet booth at the conference Expo Hall.

	To download and experience Subversion, please visit
	http://subversion.tigris.org. Further information on the Apache Incubator
	is available at http://incubator.apache.org/.

	### About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ###

	Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than
	seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the
	world's most popular Web server software. Through The ASF's meritocratic
	process known as "The Apache Way," nearly 300 individual Members and 2,000
	Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available
	enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide:
	thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License;
	and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring
	initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation’s official user conference,
	trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and
	corporate sponsors including Google, HP, Microsoft, Progress Software,
	SpringSource, and Yahoo! For more information, visit
	http://www.apache.org/.

	### About CollabNet ###

	CollabNet is the leader in application lifecycle management (ALM) platforms
	for distributed software development teams. CollabNet TeamForge is the
	industry’s most open ALM platform, supporting every environment,
	methodology, and technology. With an integrated suite of easy-to-use tools
	that share a centralized repository, it is the only ALM platform that
	enables a culture of collaboration, improving productivity 10-50% and
	reducing the cost of software development by up to 80%. As the corporate
	sponsor of the open source Subversion project, the best version control and
	software configuration management (SCM) solution for distributed teams,
	collaborative development is in CollabNet’s DNA. Millions of users at
	more than 800 organizations, including Applied Biosystems, Capgemini,
	Deutsche Bank, Oracle, Reuters, and the U.S. Department of Defense, have
	transformed the way they develop software with CollabNet. For more
	information, visit www.collab.net.