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December 21, 2005 11:30 AM US Pacific Timezone

AccuRev Joins Eclipse Foundation; Continues to Enhance Eclipse Plug-in

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 2005--AccuRev, Inc. today announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In-Provider to further its support and influence on open source standards within the software configuration management (SCM) industry. Eclipse is an open source, vendor-independent integration platform that allows developers to use their preferred tools within a common development environment.

AccuRev supports a best-of-breed strategy for application lifecycle development, which is fully consistent with the goals of Eclipse. AccuRev was founded on a vision to improve the obstacles that distributed teams face when using the previous generation of SCM tools. AccuRev's experience with the requirements of distributed, parallel development will position it to make a significant contribution to the Eclipse community.

"AccuRev views ourselves as an open, standards-based provider of productivity tools to engineers, so we have a natural alignment with the Eclipse Foundation," says Lorne Cooper, President, AccuRev, Inc. "The Eclipse vision of an open, comprehensive, development environment for best-of-breed toolsets is one that benefits our mutual customers, and something we want to continue to support."

"The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to welcome AccuRev as a member and we look forward to AccuRev's progressive thinking regarding software configuration management to reduce complexity for development teams utilizing Eclipse," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc. "We also look forward to their participation in the projects and open source development."

The AccuRev plug-in for Eclipse allows developers to utilize much of the AccuRev SCM functionality without ever leaving their familiar Eclipse IDE environment. This provides developers with a transparent, yet stable and highly functional environment with stream-based process automation, and private workspaces for doing complex, distributed application development.

About the Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org

About AccuRev, Inc.

AccuRev is the leader in process change management for distributed development, helping organizations make software development faster, more efficient and cost effective by increasing developer productivity, improving quality and reducing administrative costs. AccuRev's process change management products are ideally suited for today's fine-grained distributed development teams spread across remote locations and multiple time zones. Unlike legacy software configuration management tools, AccuRev fuses the development process with the management of software assets, resulting in a reduction from weeks to minutes in the time needed to complete essential software development tasks. AccuRev's process change management products are used by a growing number of global enterprises, including American Airlines, Citibank, Polycom, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sun Microsystems, Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin. AccuRev, Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts and is privately held. More information about AccuRev can be found at http://www.accurev.com, or by calling 1-800-383-8170 (US and Canada) and 1-781-861-8700 (Rest of World).

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