Subversion named sole leader in the Forrester 2007 Wave Report for standalone SCM

Subversion, the open source project sponsored by CollabNet, was among the selected solutions that Forrester invited to participate in its Forrester Wave™ Report “The Forrester Wave™: Software Change and Configuration Management, Q2 2007”. In this evaluation, Subversion was recognized as the sole leader in the Standalone Software Configuration Management (SCM) category and a strong performer in the Software Configuration and Change Management (SCCM) category.

The findings were based on Subversion’s strong performance on the following criteria: ability to support geographic distribution, ease of administration, security, price and scalability.

“Subversion’s strengths are scalability, administration, and geographical distribution. Subversion’s ability to scale to meet enterprise needs is well established, with single instances managing 7,500 users... Subversion is also easy to implement and administer: Subversion customer references reported initial implementation times of less than a month and administrator-to-user ratios of better than 1:1,000”, writes Carey Schwaber, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, The Forrester Wave: Software Change and Configuration Management, Q2 2007