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WANdisco Presents New Initiatives for the Subversion Open Source Project

San Ramon, CA (PRWEB) October 30, 2009

WANdisco, a leading provider of infrastructure software for replication, scalability & high availability, today will present 2 new initiatives for the Subversion open source project at SubConf 2009. These new efforts, sponsored by WANdisco, will result in new features, SubversionJ and Obliterate, which will be contributed to the Subversion open source project under the same Apache open source license currently used by the project.

The first initiative, SubversionJ, or SVNJ, will provide a rich server-side JAVA API that will leverage Subversion's established code base written in the C programming language. This will allow the Subversion community to reach out to millions of JAVA developers and enable the same expansion and enrichment of Subversion functionality on the server-side that has been seen on the client-side due to the rich set of APIs for JAVA, Python and Perl that are available.

SubversionJ's goals are to:

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????Reuse the existing Subversion code base wherever possible.
????Provide a server-side SVN/DAV implementation that will deploy in any standard J2EE container.
????Provide a simple, pluggable API for custom authentication and authorization implementations.
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The second initiative is the development of the new Obliterate feature designed to address requirements to cleanly remove obsolete files and other data from Subversion repositories. Subversion's design has always been based on the concept that recorded history will never change and such a feature has never been included. Users and administrators have had to rely on workarounds that involve dump, filter and reload steps that can be error prone and result in unintended data loss.

Now that Subversion has experienced wide adoption by large corporate development organizations that have used similar features with other version control systems, Obliterate is becoming a hard requirement. In order to provide this new feature and at the same time respect the principles underlying Subversion's design, Obliterate will include comprehensive audit and recovery capabilities to ensure that history is always available.

"These new initiatives, along with the recently announced addition of core Subversion developers to WANdisco's team, further demonstrates our commitment to the Subversion project," said David Richards, President and CEO of WANdisco. "We have taken feedback from some of our larger Subversion implementations, that run into tens-of-thousands of users, and we discovered that these enhancements were absolutely essential."

Belk to Open at 3 a.m. on Black Friday

Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) November 07, 2011

Belk stores will open at 3 a.m. for Black Friday shopping (our earliest opening hour ever) with a blockbuster store-wide sale featuring great values throughout the day and more than 285 EarlyBird specials from 3 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Also, starting at 12:01 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, customers can begin shopping our Friday EarlyBird specials and other sale items on Belk.com. Plus, Belk Rewards cardholders will receive $ 10 in Belk Rewards Dollars for every $ 100 in Belk.com purchases on Thanksgiving Day.

"We have an incredible line-up of great merchandise and super values for Black Friday," said Kathryn Bufano, Belk, Inc. president and chief merchandising officer. "Customers are looking for the best possible deals for their holiday gift-giving, and they can find them at Belk. We're opening the doors at 3 a.m. - earlier than ever before - so customers can come in sooner to take advantage of our great buys. We're offering great gift items at exceptional savings just in time for the holidays."

Following are examples of the Belk EarlyBirds offered in stores on Friday, Nov. 25, from

3 a.m. - 1 p.m. and on Belk.com from 12:01 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 24 - Friday, Nov. 25 at 1 p.m.

$ 129.99 19-inch LCD TV with DVD player (after rebate)
$ 19.99 Rampage boots
$ 19.99 ND New Directions sweaters
$ 10.99 entire stock mens Saddlebred denim
50 percent off womens and mens Sperry Top-Sider Intrepid shoes
55 percent off entire stock sleepwear and robes from ND Intimates, Character, Dearfoams, HUE,????Kim Rogers Intimates, Aria, and Miss Elaine
70 percent off entire stock Belk Silverworks
$ 89.99 special purchase watches by Seiko and Bulova
$ 199.99 1/2 ct. TW sterling silver diamond ring (Belk & Co. Fine Jewelers)
50 percent off men's boots by Clarks, Chaps and Rockport
50 - 70 percent off fashion jewelry
Juniors fashion sweater - buy one, get one free
$ 89.99 ladies wool coats from Calvin Klein, Anne Klein, Miss Gallery and London Fog
$ 89.99 men's topcoats by Madison and Saddlebred
Men's pants from Savane and Izod - buy one, get two free
50 percent off coffee makers by Keurig, Cuisinart, Bunn and Mr. Coffee
$ 69.99 HD video camera from Vivitar
$ 89.99 Garmin Nuvi 1300 GPS navigation system (after rebate)
$ 39.99 iLine iPod/iPhone dock station

In addition to the Early Bird specials, Belk will offer dozens of great fragrance and cosmetics items and gift sets, including:

The Color Stylist collection with $ 340 worth of products for $ 57.50 with any Est?e Lauder fragrance purchase

Beauty Sensation with 13 full-size beauty essentials and an attractive black bag (over $ 300 value) for $ 57.50 with any Lanc?me purchase.

About Belk, Inc.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Belk, Inc. (http://www.belk.com) is the nations largest privately owned mainline department store company with 303 Belk stores located in 16 Southern states. The company was founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, N.C., and is in the third generation of Belk family leadership. Its belk.com Web site offers a wide assortment of fashion apparel, shoes and accessories for the entire family along with top name cosmetics, a wedding registry and a large selection of quality merchandise for the home. To connect with Belk via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blog, mobile phone text messages or by email, go to: Belk Get Connected.

Modern. Southern. Style.

Belk seeks to satisfy the modern Southern lifestyle like no one else, so that our customers get the fashion they desire and the value they deserve. Our vision is for the modern Southern woman to count on Belk first for her, for her family, for life.

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Rivet Logic Publishes New White Paper on Open Source Content Management

Reston, VA (PRWEB) June 28, 2006

Rivet Logic Corporation, a leading provider of open source content management solutions, today announced the availability of a new white paper describing how commercial open source enterprise content management (ECM) software and open source portals can be used to dramatically improve productivity within commercial and government organizations.

The free white paper, entitled Seven Keys to Radically Improve Document Management and Team Collaboration with Open Source Solutions, is available for download at http://www.rivetlogic.com/wp/reg.html

Despite the mature state of enterprise software, many companies today still rely on email and shared network drives to collaborate among team members and manage and share documents. However, this approach fails in numerous ways:

Email messages proliferate at alarming rates, and important messages get lost

Important knowledge ends up scattered across a variety of email folders

Document edits may be lost, and document version history is not maintained

Search and retrieval of important information may be difficult or downright impossible

To solve this problem, some organizations have invested in tradition document management or enterprise content management platforms, but these are often quite expensive and may be difficult to use for the majority of users.

A new breed of open source technologies, including open source ECM platforms and open source portals, provide a better approach. Many organizations, including several Fortune 500 companies and numerous governmental organizations, are rapidly embracing open source applications and reaping substantial benefits.

In the white paper, Rivet Logic pulls from its experience in open source content management solutions and advises on the key capabilities that organizations should look for in open source ECM solutions. These are the keys that can enable dramatic improvements in productivity through better collaborative document management.

About Rivet Logic Corp.

Rivet Logic provides open source content management and portal solutions to companies of all sizes, using best of breed open source technologies such as the Alfresco ECM platform. Our services allow our customers to leverage information throughout their organization. As the amount of their enterprise content continues to grow, our clients harness our solutions to improve collaboration, leverage real-time information to improve customer loyalty, streamline corporate knowledge transfer, and ensure 100% compliance with standards and regulations.

For more information, visit http://www.rivetlogic.com or our blog at http://rivetlogic.wordpress.com

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Friday, 13 January 2012

WANdisco Presents New Initiatives for the Subversion Open Source Project

Belk to Open at 3 a.m. on Black Friday

Rivet Logic Publishes New White Paper on Open Source Content Management