BitKeeper wins Software Development Magazine Productivity Award

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18 -- BitKeeper, the industry leading distributed configuration management tool, has won the coveted Software Development Magazine Productivity Award.

Each year, the industry leading products are honored by CMP Media's Software Development Magazine. Only the best of the best are honored at this prestigious award ceremony. More than 92 companies and 800 attendees were at the awards ceremony.

BitMover is proud to be part of this community. Larry McVoy, BitMover's President, said "It's great to have our product recognized. We're honored that we were part of such a stellar group of vendors and won this award."

BitKeeper is used world wide by more than 50,000 professional developers daily. The Linux kernel, the MySQL database, the Xaraya content management project, the ReiserFS project, the Open Zaurus project, the NTP time management system, and the Xen Virtual Machine project are all examples of major projects which are managed by BitKeeper. About BitMover

Founded in 1998, BitMover, Inc. is a privately held San Francisco based company that produces BitKeeper. BitKeeper increases productivity at companies ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 50, with more than 50,000 seats deployed worldwide. BitKeeper provides the industry's only peer-to-peer collaborative development tool that fosters best practices in development through powerful workflow capabilities, giving managers absolute control over their projects, and increasing an engineer's productivity through best-in-class merge technology. As a public service, BitMover hosts more than 5 million files of open source containing more than 3 billion lines of code on http://www.bkbits.net.

About Software Development magazine

Software Development is the leading magazine for software development managers: the definitive source to empower those who implement and manage teams, technologies, practices and tools integral to successful development projects. Software Development is a monthly publication reaching over 100,000 subscribers. Software Development readers, who average more than 12 years' experience in the field, are trailblazing managers who care passionately about enlivening and expediting the task of delivering successful software on time and under budget.

Company web site: http://www.bitmover.com

For more information contact Bob Burres at BitMover, 415-401-8808 x112

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