CollabNet has announced a free version of its CollabNet Enterprise Edition, a team development suite which includes source code management (with Subversion), project tracking, issue tracking, mailing lists and discussion forums. It is part of a new community initiative called Open CollabNet.

Given the small size of many development teams, a free 15-user license is generous. A snag is that you have to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, which is not free. It’s still a good offer. Note that there is also a Community Edition for open source projects, used by a number of well-known projects includings Open Office, Java.net and NetBeans.