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Polarion Software, creators of the first comprehensive application lifecycle platform based on Subversion, and the Subversion Corporation today announced that Polarion will donate the subversion.com domain name, which it owns, to the Subversion Corporation. The Subversion Corporation was recently formed as a non-profit stewardship organization to further the continuing development and adoption of Subversion, the market-leading open source version control software.

The Subversion Corporation was recently formed as a non-profit stewardship organization to further the continuing development and adoption of Subversion, the market-leading open source version control software.

The joint announcement came during the SubConf 2007 conference in Munich, the first global forum for organizations involved in the practical strategies of migrating to Subversion.

Karl Fogel, president of The Subversion Corporation, said, "On behalf of the Subversion project, I wish to thank Polarion for their constructive engagement with the Subversion Corporation and for supporting the long-term interests and growing community around Subversion."

Polarion originally registered the subversion.com domain in 2004, when it became apparent Subversion would become the de facto successor to CVS, an earlier open-source version control system. As one of the first companies to develop both open source and commercial products designed around the Subversion system, Polarion envisioned an online environment where commercial vendors with Subversion-based products could promote their offerings. The goal was to help advance the market’s general adoption of the open source Subversion technology.

Said Frank Schröder, CEO at Polarion, "As a company with commercial products based around open source frameworks like Subversion, Polarion Software has always had an interest in supporting and helping to grow the open source Subversion community. With the formation of
The Subversion Corporation, it now makes sense for that body, which represents the open source Subversion community, to take over the subversion.com domain and move forward on related website projects. Polarion Software is pleased to contribute in this way."

Schröder continues, “Polarion's web sites have become valuable resources for both commercial and free or open source projects, offering tools, training, software solutions, and forums that help Subversion users gain maximum benefit from the powerful system. That support of the Subversion community will remain unchanged since existing subversion.com content will remain on the www.polarion.org site previously mirrored at subversion.com.”

During the transition, Polarion’s Subversion-related free and open source projects, including SVN Importer, SubTrain and SVN WebClient, will be relocated to tigris.org, where the Subversion development project itself is hosted. This change will consolidate more Subversion community developer tools and resources at the web location where Subversion development is coordinated.

For more information on Polarion Software, visit http://www.polarion.com. More information on The Subversion Corporation is available at http://www.subversion.org and information on the continuing development of Subversion as an open source project can be found at http://subversion.tigris.org.