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TeamDevCentral Offers Free Trials of Hosted Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Posted on: Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 06:35 CDT

TORONTO, June 9 /PRNewswire/ - rational eyes services Inc. announced today the availability of hosted and professionally guided Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 trials through its TeamDevCentral (TDC) technology. TFS is a Microsoft offering for source control, task and project tracking, and reporting. A wide range of users including managers, architects, developers and QA personnel can sign up for a free 6 week trial of TFS 2008 offered through TDC via the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/try/default.mspx (option 2).

The free trials allow companies to ensure that TFS is the right Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) technology for them, without investing heavily in set-up or self-learning. TDC's hosted TFS environment allows trials to start immediately with available expert guidance.

"With increased global sourcing, multi-vendor development, and integrated delivery, the 'anytime anywhere' access model of TDC facilitates on-boarding, collaboration and monitoring of offshore teams and other partners", said Carl Visentin, President. "'Pay-as-you-grow' subscriptions also curb licensing costs for continuously variable team sizes".

The 6 week TDC trial includes:

- Accounts allowing the customer to experience different team roles and to collaborate within a project. - Up to 4 hours of guidance and/or support for the trial can be used for any type of advice related to TFS or VSTS.

"TeamDevCentral brings a powerful and cost-effective solution for team software development and application lifecycle management. Based on a hosted Visual Studio Team Foundation Server solution, development teams of all sizes can benefit from a coordinated approach to software development and take advantage of the professional guidance and services offered by the experts from rational eyes services," stated Rini Gahir, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft.

TeamDevCentral is offered by rational eyes services Inc. a Microsoft Certified/Visual Studio Inner Circle Partner with the longest running hosted TFS service. rational eyes services Inc. first developed TeamDevCentral as an answer to its own distributed application development needs, and quickly realized that companies of all sizes could benefit from the same model.

SOURCE rationaleyes services Inc.

Source: PR Newswire

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