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This is OrcaWare Technology's main page for Subversion training, consulting and support.

Subversion is the leading centralized version control system.

For those people interested in OrcaWare's services, we list all the Subversion related services here.

• User and administrator Subversion training
• Professional Subversion installations
• Professional Trac installations
• General Subversion consulting
• Migrations to Subversion from other source control systems

OrcaWare Technologies provides the following services for development, quality assurance and technical writing teams that use Subversion.

• Subversion Training Courses
  • Our training and consulting services are primarily provided by Blair Zajac, one of the Subversion developers since 2002.
  • A full day training course for Subversion users that includes hands on training on the following Subversion clients:
    • TortoiseSVN Windows Explorer integration
    • Subclipse plugin for Eclipse
    • SmartSVN cross-platform Java based client
    • Subversion's own command line client
  • A full day training course for Subversion administrators that includes security, authentication and access rights. Supported operating systems include Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu and RedHat), Mac OS X and Solaris.

• Professional Subversion Install In Four Hours
  • Have your own Subversion server professionally installed and configured on your own systems by one of the Subversion committers in four hours
  • Supports the following operating systems
    • Windows Server 2012, 2008, 2003, XP, 2000
    • Linux: RedHat/Centos/Oracle, Ubuntu/Debian
    • Solaris
    • Mac OS X
  • Installation includes:
    • Apache 2.0.x or Apache 2.2.x, depending upon the host OS
    • Subversion 1.8.x
    • Hot-backups
    • Authentication using password files, LDAP or Active Directory (extra time required for Active Directory)
    • Authorization on a per user or group basis for different sections of the repository
    • Post-commit emails for automatic team notification of commits

• Professional Trac Install
  • Add on top of Subversion Trac, a popular ticket tracking system. Trac ties directly into Subversion, making it easy to link commits with tickets.
  • Supports the following operating systems
    • Windows Server 2003, XP, 2000
    • Linux: RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu
    • Solaris
    • Mac OS X
  • Installation includes:
    • Trac
    • PostgreSQL database

• Consulting
  • General on or off-site consulting helping your organization plan and deploy a rollout of Subversion.

• Migrations to Subversion
  • We help companies migrate from their existing source control systems to Subversion. This includes:
    • Working with management and team leads to modify existing processes and design new processes to work with Subversion's source control system.
    • Migrating code and history to Subversion.
• Commercial Support
  • We provide commercial support on a per-ticket basis for Subversion.

Organizations we have provided training and consulting to include:

Cornell University	The World Bank
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	United Nations
DHL Global Mail	SAIC
The University of Missouri-Rolla	Stratus Technologies
Paciolan	Werner Enterprises

Here are some links to other Subversion resources:

• Subversion Wiki.
• The freely available, open-source O'Reilly Subversion book.
• Subversion project home page.
• Nice archives of the Subversion mailing lists.
• PowerPoint presentation designed as an introduction to developers and management why Subversion is so great and how to use it.