WANdisco, a leading provider of infrastructure software for replication, scalability & high availability, today announced that the company has hired core developers to contribute to the Subversion open source project.

Dave Brown is WANdisco’s new Director of Open Source. Prior to joining WANdisco, Dave co-founded Gauntlet Systems, which was acquired by Borland in 2006. Dave continued as Principal Architect, leading the design and integration of Gauntlet with other Borland products. Before his time at Gauntlet, Dave was a lead engineer at BEA and WebLogic. At BEA, he helped propel the WebLogic application server to its market-leading position. Before WebLogic, Dave was one of the early engineers who developed the Java Virtual Machine at Sun Microsystems. Dave earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale University.

Philip Martin has been a core Subversion contributor for the past 8 years and was part of the original Subversion development team. Philip has focused on the Subversion working copy and was the original author of SVNMUCC (Multiple URL Command Client). Prior to WANdisco, Phillip was a Radar Systems Engineer at Marconi. Philip earned an MSc. in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from The University of Southampton and a BSc. (Hons) in Physics from the University of Manchester.

Julian Foad has been a core Subversion contributor since 2003, when the project was at version 0.24. Prior to WANdisco, Julian worked for Collabnet as a full time Subversion contributor. Julian worked on several key Subversion projects and liaised with the wider Subversion community to review and implement patches. Julian earned an MEng in Information Engineering from the University of Southampton.

“This move clearly demonstrates our commitment to the Subversion project,” said David Richards, President and CEO of WANdisco. “Subversion’s growth in the enterprise has been nothing short of staggering and this is down to the hard work of the core Subversion contributors such as Philip and Julian. We are delighted to have them on board at WANdisco.”

WANdisco's replication technology is used by Fortune Global 1000 companies such as Intel, AT&T, Honda, NTT, and Motorola to achieve high levels of performance, scalability and reliability for their distributed software development. Scalability and performance are major considerations for software development organizations with large distributed teams and growing repositories of source code, issues, documentation, and other software development artifacts.

“We are extremely pleased that WANdisco has stepped up and taken an active role in the Subversion project,” said Hyrum K. Wright, President of the Subversion Corporation. “WANdisco customers have deployed some of the largest Subversion implementations in the world and we hope to tap into their expertise in these areas.”

Core WANdisco contributors are scheduled to present this week at SubConf 2009, the annual conference for Subversion developers.

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About WANdisco

WANdisco is a leading provider of distributed software development solutions. By using WANdisco's unique replication technology, software development can now occur anywhere without any constraints. Fortune Global 1000 companies such as AT&T, Honda, NTT and Motorola rely on WANdisco's suite of source code management solutions. For more information, please visit us at http://www.wandisco.com.

About Subversion

Subversion (SVN) is a version control system initiated in 2000. It is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly-compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). In a 2007 report by Forrester Research, 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.

Subversion is released under the Apache License, making it free software.