SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- BitMover Inc., the developer of BitKeeper, the industry's only peer-to-peer collaborative development tool, today announced that Maxtor Corporation, a worldwide leader in hard disk drives and consumer storage solutions, has adopted BitKeeper as its next generation configuration management system.

Maxtor performed an extensive evaluation of BitKeeper and plans to deploy the software as a key element of its collaborative multi-site engineering strategy. BitKeeper's unique peer-to-peer architecture will allow Maxtor to better leverage its distributed engineering resources and improve time to market. This architecture will support uninterrupted parallel development among Maxtor's distributed development teams.

"The growing complexity of disk drive software and the specialization of disk drives for the consumer electronics, server, and desktop markets call for the use of a robust software configuration management system," said Dan Cautis, executive director of Firmware Engineering at Maxtor. "BitKeeper has advanced functionality to allow Maxtor to track software features for its unique markets and to better support customer configurations."

"BitKeeper has many well-designed features that we expect will allow our development teams to be more agile and increase our flexibility in meeting our customers' needs," said Eric Mudama, engineering manager at Maxtor.

One of the key benefits of using BitKeeper is the level of support that is included. BitMover's support organization provides support for both tool-related questions and for enhanced development process and workflow. This customer interaction directly influences BitMover's roadmap, ensuring that new product enhancements target the most current challenges of today's dynamic engineering environment.

"We are incredibly pleased that Maxtor Corporation has chosen BitKeeper, they are a technology leader in the storage arena and we plan to work closely with them as we continue to expand BitKeeper's functionality," said BitMover CEO Larry McVoy.

About BitMover

Founded in 1998, BitMover Inc. is a privately held Silicon Valley-based company that produces BitKeeper. BitKeeper shortens the software development lifecycle by providing the industry's only peer-to-peer collaborative development tool. Many of the world's largest independent software and hardware vendors have used BitKeeper to more effectively manage their development projects. Companies from startups to the Fortune 50 use BitKeeper to increase their productivity. BitKeeper enables best practices in software development through powerful workflow capabilities, gives managers enhanced control over their projects, and enables greater productivity in engineers through best-in-class merge technology. More than 50,000 BitKeeper seats are deployed worldwide. For more information, please see http://www.bitkeeper.com/ .

NOTE: BitMover and BitKeeper are trademarks of BitMover, Inc. Maxtor and the stylized Maxtor logo design are registered trademarks of Maxtor Corporation.

CONTACT: Amy Graf of BitMover, Inc., +1-650-872-9900, ext. 104, or
amy@bitmover.com

Web site: http://www.bitkeeper.com/