| (1888PressRelease) October 28, 2009 - San | | | | unintended data loss. |
| Ramon, CA - WANdisco, a leading provider of | | | | Now that Subversion has experienced wide |
| infrastructure software for replication, scalability | | | | adoption by large corporate development |
| & high availability, today will present 2 new | | | | organizations that have used similar features with |
| initiatives for the Subversion open source project | | | | other version control systems, Obliterate is |
| at SubConf 2009. These new efforts, sponsored | | | | becoming a hard requirement. In order to provide |
| by WANdisco, will result in new features, | | | | this new feature and at the same time respect |
| SubversionJ and Obliterate, which will be | | | | the principles underlying Subversion’s design, |
| contributed to the Subversion open source | | | | Obliterate will include comprehensive audit and |
| project under the same Apache open source | | | | recovery capabilities to ensure that history is |
| license currently used by the project. | | | | always available. |
| The first initiative, SubversionJ, or SVNJ, will | | | | “These new initiatives, along with the recently |
| provide a rich server-side JAVA API that will | | | | announced addition of core Subversion developers |
| leverage Subversion’s established code base | | | | to WANdisco’s team, further demonstrates |
| written in the C programming language. This will | | | | our commitment to the Subversion project,” |
| allow the Subversion community to reach out to | | | | said David Richards, President and CEO of |
| millions of JAVA developers and enable the same | | | | WANdisco. “We have taken feedback from |
| expansion and enrichment of Subversion | | | | some of our larger Subversion implementations, |
| functionality on the server-side that has been | | | | that run into tens-of-thousands of users, and we |
| seen on the client-side due to the rich set of APIs | | | | discovered that these enhancements were |
| for JAVA, Python and Perl that are available. | | | | absolutely essential.” |
| SubversionJ’s goals are to: | | | | About WANdisco |
| • Reach out to millions of JAVA developers | | | | WANdisco is a leading provider of distributed |
| who may become contributors. | | | | software development solutions. By using |
| • Reuse the existing Subversion code base | | | | WANdisco's unique replication technology, |
| wherever possible. | | | | software development can now occur anywhere |
| • Provide a server-side SVN/DAV | | | | without any constraints. Fortune Global 1000 |
| implementation that will deploy in any standard | | | | companies such as AT&T, Honda, NTT and |
| J2EE container. | | | | Motorola rely on WANdisco's suite of source code |
| • Provide a simple, pluggable API for custom | | | | management solutions. |
| authentication and authorization implementations. | | | | About Subversion |
| • Provide an API for a wide range of database | | | | Subversion (SVN) is a version control system |
| back ends to offer deployment options beyond | | | | initiated in 2000. It is used to maintain current and |
| FSFS. | | | | historical versions of files such as source code, |
| The second initiative is the development of the | | | | web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a |
| new Obliterate feature designed to address | | | | mostly-compatible successor to the widely used |
| requirements to cleanly remove obsolete files and | | | | Concurrent Versions System (CVS). In |
| other data from Subversion repositories. | | | | a 2007 report by Forrester Research, Subversion |
| Subversion's design has always been based on the | | | | was recognized as the sole leader in the |
| concept that recorded history will never change | | | | Standalone Software Configuration Management |
| and such a feature has never been included. Users | | | | (SCM) category and a strong performer in the |
| and administrators have had to rely on | | | | Software Configuration and Change Management |
| workarounds that involve dump, filter and reload | | | | (SCCM) category. |
| steps that can be error prone and result in | | | | |