CollabNet and Carahsoft Bring Collaborative Software Development Solutions to the Government Community

BRISBANE, CA--(Marketwire - September 3, 2008) - CollabNet today announced that it will join forces with Carahsoft Technology Corp., the trusted government IT solutions provider, to resell the award-winning CollabNet Platform to help distributed development teams within government organizations reduce costs and risks, improve productivity, and accelerate innovation for software projects.

Through the new value added reseller (VAR) agreement, Carahsoft will provide CollabNet products and services -- including CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 and CollabNet CUBiT 2.0 -- on Carahsoft's General Services Administration (GSA) schedule for federal, state and local governments. Through implementation and integration of CollabNet's products for the government community, Carahsoft enables those customers to work through a secure, adaptable platform enabling team members to collaborate on software projects from various locations across the globe. For CollabNet, the partnership enhances its ability to deliver world-class products to key branches of the United States Government. The partnership is a one year agreement that can be mutually extended.

"By partnering with 'best-in-class' companies like CollabNet, Carahsoft has succeeded in growing its revenue to $240 million in just four years," said Craig P. Abod, President at Carahsoft. "The addition of CollabNet to our GSA schedule will significantly enhance our portfolio of offerings and help us to reach our strategic goals."

"We chose Carahsoft for its distinguished reputation of understanding the government market and procurement processes, coupled with its commitment to open source software solutions," said Tony de la Lama, CollabNet vice president of marketing and corporate strategy. "By partnering with Carahsoft, CollabNet can build on its extensive history of providing government agencies of all sizes with the solutions necessary to help incite rapid innovation and dynamic communication between development teams that is not possible with traditional development tools."

About CollabNet

With 1.5 million users, CollabNet leads the software industry towards a new era of collaborative software development. By connecting remote teams and integrating disparate development tools, the CollabNet platform simplifies distributed development, reduces infrastructure costs by more than 50 percent, and eliminates silos between isolated teams to speed innovation by 20 percent and more.

CollabNet is the company behind Subversion, the world's best version control and Software Configuration Management solution for distributed teams. More than 600 industry leading companies use CollabNet's solutions today, including Reuters, Philips Medical Systems, Capgemini, and Barclays Global Investors among others. Visit CollabNet at http://www.collab.net or get more information about Subversion at http://www.collab.net/subversion.

About Carahsoft (www.carahsoft.com):

Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider, combining technological expertise with a thorough understanding of the government procurement process to help federal, state and local government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value. As a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder, Carahsoft is the largest government partner and serves as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed vendors. The company's dedicated Solutions Divisions support proactive sales, marketing and delivery of CollabNet, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Symantec, Storage Solutions, VMware, Adobe, HR, HP Software, Intelligence, and SAP.

Carahsoft is consistently recognized by its partners as a top revenue producer and is listed among the industry's fastest growing firms by VARBusiness, CRN, Inc., Washington Technology, and the Washington Business Journal (#1 Fastest Growing Company in 2007). In 2008, Carahsoft received the Government VAR State and Local Solution Provider of the Year Award and the VAR Business Top Revenue Generator Award.