Friday, March 15, 2002

About Eric Sink

In my day job I am a software developer at SourceGear.  We sell source control (aka "version control", "SCM")  tools for small and midsize software teams:

• SourceGear Vault is a source control tool designed specifically to replace SourceSafe.  It uses SQL Server 2000 for all repository storage. Several clients are available, including plugins for Visual Studio and Eclipse.
  
• SourceGear Fortress  is built on the version control features of Vault. The main difference is that Fortress also has bug-tracking. The two sets of features are deeply integrated. Fortress also supports integration with popular open source build tools, including NAnt and CruiseControl.NET. We call Fortress an Application Lifecycle Management solution, but it probably has some growing up to do before it deserves such a lofty title.
  
• SourceOffSite is a remote-access solution for Visual SourceSafe.

In October 2002, SourceGear was named one of the fastest growing companies in the nation by Inc magazine.

By my original training, I am a software programmer. I have a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I founded the AbiWord project and was responsible for much of the original design and implementation.  The title on my business card says "Software Craftsman".

Prior to founding SourceGear, I was at Spyglass (now part of OpenTV) for around five years. I served there as Project Lead for the browser team. We built the original versions of the browser you now know as "Internet Explorer".

You can email me at eric@sourcegear.com.