[Bitkeeper-announce] BitKeeper to CVS converter

[Bob Burres]

For those of you that may have missed it, I'm sending out a copy of the
press release that announced our new BK to CVS converter.  As part of our
earlier announcement regarding our commercial focus, we offered to migrate
BK repositories over to CVS on a "time available" basis.  This new system
automates the process and will speed conversions.  If you should have any
questions regarding the migration you may email us at sales at bitmover.com

South San Francisco, CA June 1, 2005 -- BitMover Inc., the provider of
BitKeeper, the industry's only peer-to-peer collaborative development tool,
today announced the availability of their BitKeeper to CVS export tool.

This tool is part of BitMover's migration strategy as they focus exclusively
on their rapidly growing commercial customer base.  This shift is expected
to significantly accelerate BitMover's development of their next generation
tools.

For those projects that will not avail themselves of BitKeeper's commercial
program there is an export utility that will convert a BitKeeper repository
into a CVS repository.  You will find instructions on how to use that
utility at;

http://kernel.bkbits.net/cgi-bin/cvsexport.cgi

Beginning July 1, 2005, all existing BitKeeper binaries will require license
keys to enable continued use.  Users wishing to request commercial
evaluation licenses can do so at; 

http://www.bitkeeper.com/cgi-bin/license.cgi

The hosted projects website, BK/Bits, will continue to be a warehouse for
open source projects and can be accessed with the open source client.  Many
projects will be converting to commercial and will continue to supply source
on BK/Bits.

About BitMover Inc.

Founded in 1998, BitMover Inc. is a privately held San Francisco-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 100 use
BitKeeper to increase their productivity.  BitKeeper enables best practices
in software development through powerful workflow capabilities, gives
managers absolute control over their projects, and enables greater
productivity in engineers through best-in-class merge technology.  More than
48,000 BitKeeper seats are deployed worldwide.  For more information, please
see http://www.bitkeeper.com.

Thanks,

Bob Burres
650 872 9900 x 112