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Polarion Subversive Project Reaches
Unprecedented Mile-Stone with Eclipse Ganymede Release
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, July 24, 2008 — Polarion Software Inc, creators of fully integrated application lifecycle management solutions and Subversion services, announced today Polarion Subversive, the official Eclipse plug-in for Subversion, has reached an unprecedented mile-stone in the total number of downloads since it´s availability as part of Eclipse Foundation´s Ganymede Simultaneous release less than a month ago.
"Polarion Subversive marks the first Subversion integration that is tightly integrated as part of the Eclipse Project. To have such a huge number of users downloading Subversive is a great testimonial of the benefits that Polarion provides to the Eclipse Community" said, Michael Carey, CEO at Polarion. "At current pace, we expect the Subversive user base of 300,000 to surpass one million over the next ten months. We are glad to be able to provide a tool that the Eclipse community has embraced and we will continue to support the open source community with development efforts." Carey said.
"After evaluating several alternatives and talking to developers in the Eclipse open source community, we reached the conclusion that Subversive is the most suitable solution for us," said Yaron Mazor, Lead Developer for Zend
"For Eclipse.org to include Polarion Subversive as part of the Ganymede Simultaneous release is a great indication of how well designed the product is. We also leverage Subversive with Polarion´s ALM products to manage our whole development cycle from Requirements Management through testing, and all work seamlessly with our Eclipse environment," said Sergiy Logvin, Technical Director of Dreamlight.
Polarion, the Subversive project team, and the Eclipse community of Subversive contributors will continue its development efforts to deliver new features and improvements based on feedback of users. The next Subversive update is scheduled for the Fall of 2008. Subversive can be downloaded at www.eclipse.org
About Polarion Software
Polarion Software is a global leader of comprehensive application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions and services aimed at improving efficiency and productivity in distributed development environments. Polarion ALM for Subversion combines every major phase of managing the software development lifecycle into one comprehensive ALM platform that provides teams with the real-time information on the actual state of software development in their organization necessary to make intelligent, informed decisions, while leveraging Subversion and other advanced open source technologies to deliver unique functionality and a significant return on investment. Additional information is available at www.polarion.com.
About The Eclise Foundation
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org
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