Friday, June 01, 2007

Vault 4.0 and Fortress

Wii systems?  Comic books?  T-shirts?  Doesn't SourceGear do software anymore?

Indeed we do.

As I said on Tuesday, next week at Tech-Ed is going to be big for SourceGear.  I've told you about all sorts of marketing fluff, but the big news is our product releases.  After many months of development, we will be unveiling version 4.0 of SourceGear Vault and the first public release of SourceGear Fortress.

I feel more jazzed about these new releases than I have about any product cycle before.  All our marketing efforts would be rather pointless if they weren't being done in support of some very cool software products.

Vault 4.0

Vault 4.0 brings many improvements and new features to our users, but two big things are worth highlighting:

• Dramatically improved integration with Visual Studio 2005.
• Integration with Eclipse, including support for non-Windows platforms like Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X.

For a longer spiel, see our Vault 4.0 whitepaper (1.2 MB PDF).

Fortress

Fortress is an integrated solution for application lifecycle management (ALM):

• Version control (built from the same source tree as Vault 4.0)
• Work item tracking (from Dragnet, with significant new improvements).
• Excellent integration with Visual Studio 2005 and Eclipse.
• Easy to install.  Designed specifically for small and medium-sized teams.

We're calling this version 1.0 because we see the initial release of Fortress as the beginning of a journey.  Future releases will offer a more comprehensive feature set for ALM.

For a longer spiel, see our Fortress whitepaper (1.2 MB PDF).

Next Week

These new products will be released and available for download and purchase on Monday.  Watch for them to appear on the SourceGear website.

For those of you will be at Tech-Ed, if you want to see what we really do here at SourceGear, stop by our booth next week for a demo.  And yes, you can have a comic book and a T-shirt too.  :-)