December 22, 2009 —CollabNet, the leader in distributed application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced today that CollabNet TeamForge 5.3, the latest version of the company’s award-winning ALM platform, is now generally available.  The company also announced the general availability of the latest versions of CollabNet Desktop Eclipse Edition, CollabNet Desktop Visual Studio Edition, and CollabNet Desktop Windows Edition.  Lastly, CollabNet announced the general availability of the latest version of the CollabNet Lab Management module for CollabNet TeamForge.  CollabNet TeamForge 5.3 is a free upgrade for all existing CollabNet TeamForge users.

Additional Resources:

More information about CollabNet TeamForge 5.3 is available here: http://www.open.collab.net/products/ctf/.
More information about CollabNet Lab Management is available here: ttp://www.open.collab.net/products/labmgnt/.
More information about CollabNet Desktops is available here: ttp://www.open.collab.net/downloads/integrations/.

New in CollabNet TeamForge 5.3: Dynamic Planning

CollabNet TeamForge 5.3 includes a significant breakthrough capability called “Dynamic Planning,” which enables software development teams to manage and model both project scope and timeline in a single user interface. The new release also includes an out-of-the-box best-practices Agile development template that enables teams to start an Agile-based project quickly and easily while still flexibly supporting other methodologies.

About CollabNet

CollabNet is the leader in application lifecycle management (ALM) platforms for distributed software development teams. CollabNet TeamForge is the industry’s most open ALM platform, supporting every environment, methodology, and technology. With an integrated suite of easy-to-use tools that share a centralized repository, it is the only ALM platform that enables a culture of collaboration, improving productivity 10-50% and reducing the cost of software development by up to 80%. As the founder of the open source Subversion project, the best version control and software configuration management (SCM) solution for distributed teams, collaborative development is in CollabNet’s DNA Millions of users at more than 800 organizations, including Applied Biosystems, Capgemini, Deutsche Bank, Oracle, Reuters, and the U.S. Department of Defense, have transformed the way they develop software with CollabNet For more information, visit www.collab.net.