T4U Partners With CollabNet to Address Rapidly Growing Market for On-Demand Distributed Software Development and Application Lifecycle Management

Business Wire, Dec 18, 2006

Leading Japanese Distributed Software Development System Integrator Becomes Member of CollabNet Global Business Partner Program

BRISBANE, Calif. -- CollabNet, a leading provider of on-demand distributed software development solutions, and T4U Co., Ltd., a leading distributed software development systems integrator in Japan, jointly announced that T4U has become a member of the CollabNet([R]) Global Business Partner Program. Under the agreement, T4U is now authorized to resell CollabNet([R]) Enterprise Edition throughout the Japanese market.

In addition to joining CollabNet's Global Business Partner Program, T4U is announcing a new and unique Global Distributed Software Development solution, with CollabNet Enterprise Edition at the core of the development platform. T4U has leveraged its substantial experience in information system development projects with major Chinese software companies to develop a standardized platform for information system development which will be provided in Japan by T4U, through the CollabNet platform. Leveraging CollabNet Enterprise Edition's on demand environment, as well as its own best practices, T4U will deliver best-in-class solutions for document standardization and software development process control as well as strategic services for information system development.

"T4U chose to partner with CollabNet because the combination of CollabNet's superior products and services together with their comprehensive Global Partner Program gives us a clear competitive advantage in the market," said Osamu Nakahashi, President of T4U. "Together with CollabNet, we are able to support our customers' needs by allowing virtual software development teams to communicate, reuse software assets, share knowledge, track issues and defects, and work with third parties in a secure, Web-based collaborative environment. CollabNet's on-demand solutions ensure we are able to respond quickly to our customers' distributed software development requirements."

Expanding its leadership role in the rapidly growing market for next-generation distributed software development solutions, CollabNet is partnering with global software development experts and other leaders in the development of applications, embedded software and complex systems. These CollabNet alliances equip partners to provide next-generation, on-demand distributed development and application lifecycle management services that are far easier and more cost-effective to implement than conventional installed development products.

"We are delighted to welcome T4U to the CollabNet Global Business Partner Program," said Vaughan Woods, Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific for CollabNet. "Our new program is designed to equip our reseller, community, technology and services business partners with the business and technical resources to address the vast, largely untapped and rapidly growing market for distributed development."

The CollabNet Global Business Partner Program is a channel empowerment program aimed at expanding the market for distributed development delivered as a service. This multi-faceted program answers many development organizations' need for globally distributed development services. CollabNet's program offerings are custom tailored to the business requirements and long-term market vision of CollabNet's partners.

About T4U

T4U Co. Ltd., is Japan's leading systems integrator for distributed global software development. T4U helps businesses reduce risk and improve economy throughout the software development lifecycle by effectively managing global software development resource. The company helps customers define processes, train their organizations and implement a global software development infrastructure. The name T4U is derived from the company's motto to deliver "Useful," "Unique," "Ubiquitous" solutions to the "Universe," thru effective use of leading technologies. T4U provides cost effective solutions, using leading technologies from partners such as Adobe, HP and CollabNet. T4U clients include leading companies in the mobile phone, high-tech home electronics, automotive telematics, and the financial industry. Visit T4U at http://www.t4u.ne.jp/.> About CollabNet

CollabNet is a widely used on-demand collaborative development environment with more than 900,000 developers and IT projects managers across the world collaborating on-line through CollabNet. The company is transforming the way software is being developed by enabling organizations to leverage global development talents to deliver better products and innovate faster.

Using CollabNet Enterprise Edition, project members can work as one team throughout the lifecycle of a project, regardless of their location. Unlike traditional software development tools, CollabNet supports globally distributed teams in a cost-effective way, yielding unprecedented annual savings through reduced development infrastructure costs, increased productivity, improved project visibility and shared access to software assets. Founded upon open source principles, CollabNet is also the primary sponsor of the Subversion(TM) open source project, the next-generation version control system.