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Sony Platform Technology Center Chooses CollabNet SourceCast Environment for Its Software Quality Assurance Department

Posted on: Sunday, 27 July 2003, 06:00 CDT

BRISBANE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 2003--CollabNet, the leading provider of collaborative software development solutions, today announced that Sony Corporation has become one of the most recent users of the CollabNet(R) SourceCast(R) environment for the Software Quality Assurance Department of its Platform Technology Center (PTC). The PTC is a corporate organization within Sony Corporation established to support its total business from hardware to content, as well as, all of Sony's Network Companies and Business Groups on a horizontal basis.

The CollabNet SourceCast environment allows companies to establish virtual teams across organizations, locations, and time zones and to easily maintain numerous, simultaneous development projects. The CollabNet SourceCast environment provides exceptional flexibility in organizing projects into groups and categories based on the exact requirements of the project owner. Developers can begin working with the solution immediately, resulting in decreased administrative costs and an increase in productivity. In addition, the extensive role-based permissions model allows project managers to define the specific level of access for each member of a project.

The CollabNet SourceCast environment is fully internationalized and supports multibyte character sets, including Japanese. This allows members to use their local language for collaborating on projects and further facilitates development across distributed geographic locations. Sony will be using both the English and Japanese versions of the CollabNet SourceCast environment to manage different projects within the PTC and allow developers to work in their native language.

"CollabNet has a proven track record of working with some of the largest, most successful companies in the world and we are continuing that trend by working with Sony," said Bill Portelli, president and CEO, CollabNet. "We believe that the benefits of collaborative software development will allow Sony to streamline their software quality assurance process and result in better synergy and more efficient communication across the project teams. We look forward to working with them as they expand their collaborative software development efforts within the Platform Technology Center."

About the CollabNet SourceCast environment

The CollabNet SourceCast environment unifies the vital components needed to address the core issues of distributed development, including applications for software development, technical communication, knowledge management, and project administration. The CollabNet SourceCast environment has been successfully deployed in a wide variety of software development environments to address a number of business challenges, including: distributed development, mergers and acquisitions, offshore or contract development, and Web services. More information about the CollabNet SourceCast environment can be found at: http://www.collab.net/products/sourcecast/.

About CollabNet

CollabNet provides companies with solutions for Collaborative Software Development (CSD) by combining a Web-based software application with a suite of consulting services. Using CollabNet solutions, software teams can collaborate on development across multiple locations within the extended enterprise or securely integrate business partners, contractors, or offshore development firms. CollabNet enables companies to reduce costs and increase revenues by eliminating the inefficiencies and limitations of traditional LAN-based development platforms. The CollabNet SourceCast environment is being used by hundreds of thousands of developers at Fortune 500 and industry-leading enterprise companies around the world, including: Barclays Global Investors (BGI), Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), HP, Motorola, SK Telecom, and Sun Microsystems. Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, established CollabNet in July 1999. For more information, see http://www.collab.net.

CollabNet and SourceCast are trademarks or registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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