The company with SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.3 is offering standardized wikis and other improvements such as a tracker workflow engine for tracking bugs and change requests. Available either for deployment behind a customer's firewall or in a hosted fashion, SourceForge Enterprise is intended to bring the benefits of distributed, open source-style development to enterprises. The package is modeled after the SourceForge.net open source development site.

"As that [site] grew up over the years, there was an increasing demand for enterprise organizations, for companies, to be able to perform their development in the same way as open source developers" who collaborate across the globe, said Colin Bodell, VA's CTO.

SourceForge supports whatever tools a customer wants to use while providing a central point of installation, data retention, and activity management.

The wiki engine in Version 4.3 unifies wiki deployments to make it easier to manage them. "We've seen organizations, some of them that may have 200 to 300 of these things that are running all over the place," Bodell said. "Even if each one of these things takes an hour a week to manage and maintain, that number adds up very quickly."

The tracker workflow engine in Version 4.3 allows a user to define steps for reporting bugs or change requests. The product also enables e-mail to be sent for purposes of tracking the status of bugs; e-mail would be sent to whoever has jurisdiction over the bug.