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Open Source Development
Software Innovation through Mass Collaboration
The success of open source projects like Linux, Apache, Subversion, and OpenOffice.org proves that the concept of creating software through mass collaboration and collective intelligence is not just a novelty; it is a rapidly maturing and sustainable strategy for cutting development costs, creating new business relationships, and fueling innovation.
CollabNet brings open source principles and industry-leading software together in a unified, enterprise-ready development platform. Our solutions combine Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software with mainstream collaboration and project management capabilities to help organizations create "hybrid" development strategies that combine the best of both traditional and open source models.
CollabNet and Open Source Software Development
- Bring open source and collaborative development principles to the enterprise. Deploy the CollabNet Platform to geographically distributed teams to eliminate silos between development sites and enable developers to collaborate effectively. Discover, leverage, and reuse the collective code and content of your teams - from open source to proprietary assets.
- Bring the enterprise to the open source community. As a grassroots supporter and leading influencer in the open source arena, CollabNet knows how to help organizations transform their product strategies to embrace and leverage open source. Using CollabNet Enterprise Edition, organizations can open their products to open source developers, and reach out to talent anywhere in the world.
- Leverage open source development tools in-house. As the initiator and ongoing steward of the Subversion project, CollabNet is the best source of knowledge and technical expertise for large development organizations that want to standardize their Software Configuration Management practices around CollabNet Subversion.
Customer Spotlight
Benefits
 java.net relies on CollabNet to bring together over 400K developers.
 NetBeans selected CollabNet as the platform of choice for open source collaborative development of rich, highly compatible Java IDE - more than 500K users connect and collaborate around NetBeans. OpenOffice.org, enabled by CollabNet Community Edition, brings together over 500K users worldwide in the development of a free, multi-platform office productivity suite. Philips Medical Systems uses CollabNet to enable Philips Medical Program Managers to work with dozens of software engineering groups across different Philips product divisions. Deploying CollabNet has helped Philips introduce new innovations more quickly. Subversion (subversion.tigris.org) community of over 2.5M users leverages CollabNet's development infrastructure and community management to create the industry's leading SCM capability for collaborative software development over the Web.
Using CollabNet's agile, open development platform, organizations can:
- Reduce cycle time to deliver production-ready software sooner.
- Transform interactions with customers and business partners by incorporating their input as the software takes shape.
- Produce software that better matches customer needs as a result of their active participation in projects.
- Improve product quality by capitalizing on external talent, nurturing collaborative relationships, and reusing pre-tested code from other projects.
- Accelerate innovation by quickly recognizing and reconciling defects, confronting issues, and sharing code.
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