Subversion:
With a growing feature list, this open-source version control system has turned the industry upside down and is challenging proprietary solutions with its simplicity and ease of use.

Atlassian:
With 3,100 user organizations and a bunch of industry awards in its pocket, this company from Down Under is hopping.

CollabNet:
The introduction of a maturity model for ALM gives organizations a road map for arriving at distributed development nirvana.

IBM Rational:
The granddaddy of ’em all, IBM Rational’s ClearCase has had a dizzying run with its DSEE-based version control system created in the 1980s.

MKS:
If you build it, they will come. That’s what MKS believed when it built, rather than bought, the pieces of its very successful ALM suite.

Perforce:
As its competitors look upstream to broader markets, Perforce stays the course and continues to improve performance. It does one thing, but really well.

Seapine:
Slow and steady, Seapine keeps enhancing its suite for testing, defect tracking and change management; many other vendors support the package.

Serena:
Opened up the SAFE to give the Eclipse Foundation the basis of its Application Lifecycle Framework project, an effort to standardize ALM processes.

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