• Do you have a project to do, but no development infrastructure?
• Do you have a limited-scope project to do, and do not want to over-commit your development team?
• Perhaps you are working with off-site resources and you wish to use a third-party development infrastructure?
• Are you working with a consulting team, and your IT security group won't allow them access to your LAN resources?

If the answer to any of the above questions is yes, then Xelerance Development Studio (XDS) is for you.

Xelerance Development Studio is an integrated, and secure, development infrastructure service.

You can compare it to a sound studio, where artists come to record their music to be sold world-wide. The sound studio provides the recording environment and services necessary to get the job done, allowing the artist to do what they do best, compose, write and perform.

XDS is the development infrastructure that provides all the services necessary to bring your development project to completion. Your developers do what they do best, create and develop, XDS looks after the rest.

XDS will provide you with the following important capabilities in a secure environment:

• Central source repository supporting CVS, git, SVN, RCS, and SCCS
• Bug and support call tracking system
• Instant messaging system using Jabber and IRC, supporting Linux, OS X, and Windows
• Centralized email delivery with anti-spam filtering
• Project timesheets and expense approval system
• Central file repository for large files, via SMB, NFS, FTP, and Owl-CMS
• All communications with server and project participants are secured using VPN protocols such as IPsec and L2TP
• Secure Voice-over-IP communications using IPsec or zphone
• Public and private mailing lists for announcements, public support channels and internal discussions
• Centralized shared calendars
• On-demand multi-platform testing lab
• Interacts with most Integrated Development Environments, such as Microsoft Studio, Eclipse, and such.
• Interacts with most Email and calendaring clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, and such
• Compatible with VPN clients, such as Microsoft L2TP/IPsec, OSX L2TP/ IPsec, Openswan, Racoon, and IPsecuritas.