1. Who or What is Peregrine? David Wentland Software Development Manager Peregrine Systems, Inc.

2. A Peregrine is a type of Falcon… Falco peregrinus, a bird of prey…

3. Peregrine is also a software company… Peregrine Highlights Boasts a rare 20 year history Valued at 2.7 billion dollars Reported 17 straight quarters of meeting revenue/earnings Achieved over 75 percent growth in last two years Claims 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies as customers Created the infrastructure management solutions market On track as B2B powerhouse with collaborative e-Commerce A pioneer in Employee Relationship Management www.peregrine.com

4. Version Control Front End Les Ramer Sr. Software Engineer Peregrine Systems, Inc.

5. What is Version Control? A.A tool for managing source code B.A tool you will use constantly throughout your careers as software engineers C.A sometimes gangly piece of software that everyone implements differently D.A pain in the behind E.All of the above

6. Diversity Different systems over my career… MS Source Safe, PVCS, CMVC, Perforce Others… CVS, Clear Case, etc…

7. Help is on the way… With the aid of {insert your team name here} developers will have a consistent and extensible front end that will work across all version control systems…

8. What Success Means… Easy to use cross platform GUI (in Java?) using trees and an explorer-like view with context menus Cross platform data format (XML?) Interfaces nicely across at least two version control systems That you have fun developing a product

9. How can you do this? Making command line calls Formatting your input to the command line Parsing command outputs Sleuthing out industry standard interfaces that may exist

10. Questions? Contact information: Les Ramer ( Leslie.Ramer@Peregrine.com )Leslie.Ramer@Peregrine.com