Company

BitMover is a privately held company incorporated in 1998 in the state of California. We are headquartered in Silicon Valley and maintain distributed development groups in the United States, Canada, and Germany. Our mission is to deliver the infrastructure required for software, hardware, web, and other computer based development.

BitMover's dedicated engineering team has been working on our flagship product, BitKeeper, since mid 1997. Because we make tools which excel in today's distributed development environments, we use our own products for our own development and have been successfully doing so since 1998.

BitMover is profitable and is experiencing dynamic growth. The majority of our sales are generated from the referrals of satisfied BitMover customers.

What we do

We develop tools used for software, hardware and web development. Our initial focus has been on a scalable source management tool called BitKeeper.

We have invested heavily in the development of BitKeeper and are now leveraging that investment by using the software as a basis for new applications, such as bug tracking, sales tracking, invoice tracking, project tracking, project management, project hosting, etc.

Our roadmap has us developing and deploying these applications as well as grouping them together to form what we call a virtual developer ASP. BitKeeper lets you take your source with you. Our ASP will let you take your source, bug database, to do list, mailing list, and any other required data with you. The ASP model as it stands today has one fatal flaw: some company you may or may not trust holds your data. The BitKeeper ASP is a distributed, replicated, suite of databases holding source, bug tracking, mailing lists, and everything you need for your development projects.

The BitMover difference

BitMover is a unique company. We provide a strong focus on engineering excellence with an equally strong focus on our customers. We have a solid, old-fashioned work ethic and a dedication to quality which shows in our products and throughout our development process. If you report a problem to us, our commitment is to not only fix it, but to develop a regression test that ensures you will never see the same problem again. We have developed proprietary clustering technology which allows us to test our software on more than 30 different platforms before you see it. No matter how well we are doing, we know we can always do better. We are constantly updating our processes in order to create more useful and higher quality products to better serve your needs.

BitMover is an innovative company. While other high-tech companies have taken the more common route of using venture capital to fund quick growth for a quick return, BitMover has been quietly building a strong foundation for long term stability and sustainable growth.

Our business model is quite unusual and we view it as part of our competitive advantage.

BitMover emphasizes quality and support. We have been successful by providing excellent support to our customers. We don't sell our product unless we know we can support it. Our philosophy is to build quality into our products. We do not ship software that we know is broken. All companies say these things, but in our case there is greater pressure to make good on these promises. Our products are infrastructure products, we know that if they stop working so do you. Hence our commitment to testing and a higher standard of engineering.

BitMover hires the best people possible. Our engineers typically have more than 16 years of industry experience, are experts in their fields, and have shipped multiple successful products in their careers. We provide an exciting work environment, challenging problems, and excellent compensation and benefits. Come work with us, we are always looking for people who want to work hard and make a difference.

BitMover is here for the long haul. As a private company we make our decisions with a long term view. Instead of trying to make our next quarter financial results look good we are trying to build great products for you, products that help you be more successful in the marketplace. We view the products we are building as part of the foundation for your company and we take that seriously. Our products have built in redundancy and safety features to help your company keep functioning no matter what happens.

BitMover is a privately held corporation and is self-supporting through sales of our main product, BitKeeper. We're profitable and we are looking for more talented people to grow our company.

Our products are unique. They answer real needs and provide solutions to tough problems in today's marketplace. Unlike many of the companies from the dot com bubble, our products are infrastructure products which are critical to the development process. As long as there are engineers working on software, hardware, web, and/or document development, there will be a need for the tools that we develop. Our customers range from small specialized design houses to Fortune 100 companies.

Founders

• Larry McVoy
  Mr. McVoy has over nineteen years of experience in the computer industry. He has worked at Sun Microsystems, SGI, Cobalt Microserver, and Google. He is the designer of TeamWare, Sun's source management product. Solaris has been developed exclusively under TeamWare. Mr. McVoy is also an expert in high performance computer and networking architectures. He has published numerous technical papers and made many technical and marketing presentations on operating systems, clustering, networking, and performance issues. His paper on LMbench received the best paper award in the January 1995 Usenix. Mr. McVoy has made key contributions to many high performance products, including Sun's UFS filesystem, SCSI controllers, 100Mbit ethernet, VLANs, SparcCluster, SGI's Bulk Data Service (BDS), and MDBM. Mr. McVoy holds a MSCS and BSCS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Beth Van Eman
  Ms. Van Eman has over eighteen years of experience in the computer industry. She has worked in software operations at several startups, with a long stay at MIPS and then SGI. She was responsible for software configuration management and release at SGI. Ms. Van Eman holds a BA in Economics from the University of California Santa Cruz.

• Rick Smith
  Mr. Smith has over twenty-three years of industry experience, specializing in distributed source management since 1992. He is recognized as the world's foremost expert on changeset engines and revision control weave based storage. Mr. Smith holds BSEE/MSEE degrees from CMU and was employed by HP for 16 years, before leaving to form a consulting company

News

2007-01-18 BitMover Employees Embrace the Holiday Spirit
2006-08-17 BitKeeper's Next Generation SCM Platform is Now Available
2006-04-27 BitMover CEO: Silicon Valley Needs Sun
2006-04-25 BitMover Expanding North American Operations
2005-11-15 BitMover Announces Open Source Awards Program
2005-11-08 BitMover Announces Seventh Consecutive Quarter of Record Revenue
2005-08-31 BitMover Achieves Record Growth in Second Quarter
2005-06-15 Maxtor Chooses BitKeeper For Software Configuration Management
2005-06-08 BitMover Releases BitKeeper 3.2.4
2005-06-01 BitMover Announces BitKeeper to CVS Converter
2005-04-05 BitMover announces accelerated commercial development strategy and migration plan for Open Source users
2005-03-17 BitMover Announces Open Source Client for BitKeeper SCM System
2004-05-12 NewsForge: BitKeeper after the storm - Part 2
2004-05-11 NewsForge: BitKeeper after the storm - Part 1
2004-03-18 BitKeeper wins Software Development Magazine Productivity Award
2004-03-17 BitKeeper Helps Double Pace of Linux Development
2003-11-10 BitKeeper Detects First Known Linux Security Breach
2003-01-27 LinuxWorld: Larry McVoy on BitKeeper, kernel development, Linus Torvalds & Bruce Perens
2002-05-28 Kernel Trap: Interview: Larry McVoy
2001-09-01 Software Expert: Balancing act for SCM (pdf)
2001-04-02 Linux Weekly News writeup of the Linux Kernel Summit, April 2001
2000-05-11 Linux Weekly News May 2000 News
2000-04-00 Linux Magazine April 2000 article
1999-04-01 Linux Weekly News 1999 Feature
1998-10-15 Slashdot

BitMover, BitKeeper, the BitMover business model, and/or BitMover's founders have been written about in the following books:

• Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business and Took Microsoft By Surprise by Robert Young and Wendy Goldman Rohm
• Open Source: The Unauthorized White Papers by Donald K. Rosenberg
• Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution by Glyn Moody
• Free for All: How LINUX and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans by Peter Wayner

Trademarks

The following are trademarks and/or salesmarks of BitMover, Inc.

BitKeeper, BitMover, BK/Free, BK/Basic, BK/Pro, BK/Web, BK/DB, BK/Bugs, BugManager, Line of development, Delta Development Model.

Contact Us

If you are interested in purchasing our products: try sales@bitmover.com or call us at 888-401-8808 and press 2 for sales.

If you need support: try support@bitmover.com or call us at 408-370-9911 and press 3 for support.

If you are interested in working on our products, please see our jobs section.

BitMover, Inc.
Suite 132
300 Orchard City Drive
Campbell, CA 95008

Tel: +1-408-370-9911 (international and California)
Tel: 888-401-8808 (toll free in the US & Canada)
Fax: 408-370-0626