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Canonical launches commercial services for version control system Bazaar |
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Canonical, the company behind popular open source operating system Ubuntu, has announced that its companies and projects interested in its version control system Bazaar will now have access to an entire suite of commercial services including consultancy and conversion, training and support. This, Canonical said, will allow them to migrate, deploy and manage Bazaar. The Bazaar version control system supports distributed development environments. Many existing version control systems use a centralized model, a particular challenge to globally distributed 'chase the sun' development teams, or environments where there is a frequent need to merge or branch code. Although Bazaar itself is open source, there is no requirement for commercial projects to make their code publicly available. “The increasingly distributed nature of software development has allowed Bazaar to grow in popularity,” said Martin Pool, project manager at Canonical. “Our Consultancy & Conversion, Training and Support services give new and existing customers piece of mind when setting up such a vital piece of infrastructure.” Case in point is that of Sun Microsystems, who migrated the code for its MySQL database software a year ago, using Bazaar conversion and support services. "We wanted to use a tool which suited our distributed contributor model for MySQL, but we needed the reassurance of access to the Bazaar development team through our transition and use of the vcs," said Jeffrey Pugh, vice president of MySQL Engineering, Sun Microsystems. "We have found Bazaar works really well for our model, and that the Bazaar support team and developers have been responsive to our requirements." |
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