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Introducing the World's First Virtualized Development Platform

CollabNet and Sun Microsystems have joined efforts to offer the first blade server based Virtualized Development Platform (VDP) that can save up to $1.75 million per 100 developers per year in infrastructure costs -- it can actually pay for itself in a month!  Ideal for distributed teams, VDP centralizes build and test environments for global teams allowing them to carve out system resources for Solaris, Linux and Windows environments running on SPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon based Sun Blade™ 6000 modular systems.

Also included in the Virtualized Development Platform is a complimentary 15-user copy of CollabNet Enterprise Edition, CollabNet's web-based collaborative software development platform for distributed teams. This contains Subversion™, the top-rated version control system in the market today, which provides enterprises with management and centralization of code/artifact repositories. In addition, CollabNet Enterprise Edition provides features that enable the compliance and governance of development teams, including a level of authorization via Roles Based Access Control, data archiving, and context sensitive search.

Operational benefits include: increased productivity, reductions in development, build and test equipment costs, improved software quality, develop infrastructure governance, and extensible platform support.

Development benefits include: faster time-to-market, build and test standardization, out of the box development interoperability, simplified approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and improved infrastructure governance through secure roles-based access, auditability, and historical archiving of all server provisioning and access.

Learn how you can realize savings of up to 50% on expenses and reduce time-to-market while still fulfilling compliance regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley by visiting www.sun.com/blades, click on Virtualized Development Platform and calculate your cost savings!

Posted at 01:51PM Aug 06, 2007 by Lisa Robinson Schoeller in Sun  |  Comments[0]