BRISBANE, CA--(Marketwire - October 5, 2008) - CollabNet® today announced general availability of the Japanese version of CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0, bringing enhanced ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) features to the industry-leading Web-based development platform to the Japanese market.

The new release empowers teams to model their preferred ALM processes with customizable project pages, and then capture and share workflows, best practices, and other project content to promote process standardization. Specific enhancements include:

1. Usability. User interface improvements and improved navigation.
2. Configurable Project Pages as Basis of ALM
• Configurable Project Pages
  Rapidly design the structure of project sites and establish the development process and methodology for the project.
• Portlet-like Project Page Components
  Configurable project components help individual project teams and users quickly customize project pages.
• True WYSIWYG HTML Editing
  Full-featured editor enables even users with no HTML skills to add rich content to project pages.
3. Project Templates
   New project templates allow project managers to use existing projects as a blueprint for new projects. These templates are a configurable starting point to jump-start new projects or as a fixed standard to enforce lifecycle processes, artifact relationships and workflows.

Entry Level Pricing

To benefit any size team, CollabNet announced reduced entry-level pricing of 890,000 Yen per year, for a server license with basic support for the first 25 users. Unlike other vendors whose lower priced offerings restrict features, CollabNet provides the full enterprise product without functional restrictions. Everything available to CollabNet's largest Fortune 500 customers is now available at an affordable price point to the smallest development teams.

"CollabNet is the only industry solution that maximizes both simplicity and flexibility in the way the projects are set-up, allowing teams to roll-out development processes and adopt ALM at their own pace," said Taki Katashiba, Vice President of Asia-Pacific for CollabNet. "With new project page and templating enhancements, Visual Studio and Eclipse integrations, and attractive new server pricing, teams of any size can now realize the benefits of ALM."

To learn more, view an online demo, or download a trial of CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0, visit http://www.collab.net/products/sfee/.

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, Barclays Global Investors, and Sharp Corporation. Visit CollabNet at http://www.collab.net or get more information about Subversion at http://www.collab.net/subversion.

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