Last Updated Feb 01, 2008 — Enterprise Agile Planning expert
Subversion: 200,000 and counting
Enterprise Agile Planning
Last August I blogged about Subversion running on 150,000 public Apache servers. On December 31st ’07 that number had grown to 199,432, less than 600 short of allowing me to open the New Year with a 200K announcement. I looked at the number again this morning: Subversion is now on more than 220,000 servers. A month-over-month growth of over 10%. These numbers are staggering and – following the same logic as last time – I estimate that the number of developers using Subversion must now be over 2.5 million.
The data only reflect a subset of the Subversion servers out there. There are lots of Apache servers that do not report their modules, there’s svnserve, and then there is Subversion behind firewalls. The graph shows a trend, not the absolute number. |
At CollabNet we track more data around Subversion and I see similar trends in other areas. For instance, downloads of the free 15-user version of SourceForge Enterprise Edition continues to be strong. I only have data from the last seven months (we acquired SFEE last year) but it is clear that more and more people are looking for an enterprise platform around Subversion to manage Subversion and crack the nut of globally distributed development.If you want to read about managing Subversion through SFEE, check out the paragraph “SourceForge Enterprise SCM Integration Framework” in the December 2007 openCollabNet Technical Newsletter (find it in the newsletter archive). One of the interesting things of SFEE is that it can easily take existing Subversion repositories under its hood and you can even manage non-Subversion legacy systems. This is great for migrations to Subversion. For example, start new projects on SVN but continue some existing ones on ClearCase until these projects are ready to migrate. You can download the free 15-user version of SourceForge Enterprise Edition from openCollabNet. One caveat though: it’s a VMware image that only supports the Subversion server that comes with it. To manage other Subversion servers or legacy systems, you need the full version of SourceForge Enterprise Edition. |
Attribution: Subversion data provided by E-Soft (http://www.securityspace.com). If you want to track the number month by month, monitor our Subversion growth page. |