VA and ThoughtWorks partner on CruiseControl

VA Software and ThoughtWorks to Launch Partnership to Help  
Enterprises Accelerate Adoption of Agile Development Methodologies

Companies to Integrate SourceForge Enterprise Edition and CruiseControl

Chicago and Fremont, Calif, September 26, 2005 —VA Software  
Corporation (NASDAQ: LNUX), leading provider of software, information  
and community support for IT and development professionals and global  
IT consultancy ThoughtWorks, Inc., today announced that the companies  
will launch an alliance to jointly develop agile development  
solutions for enterprise customers. The two companies will offer a  
turn-key solution that integrates VA Software’s SourceForgeâ  
Enterprise Edition, the leading collaborative development platform;  
CruiseControl, the popular continuous integration build tool open  
sourced by ThoughtWorks; and ThoughtWorks’ best practices for agile  
and distributed agile development.

“We’re pleased to team with the leading platform provider for  
distributed collaborative software development,” said Roy Singham,  
ThoughtWorks’ founder and CEO. “With this relationship, VA Software  
and ThoughtWorks can now offer clients the ability to transform their  
organizations through a complete and comprehensive solution that  
properly aligns business and IT. With the integration of  
CruiseControl with SourceForge Enterprise Edition, including  
commercial support, our software delivery and transformation best  
practices and consulting services, business and IT leaders now have a  
comprehensive solution to improve IT effectiveness.”

CruiseControl will be the first continuous build system integrated  
into SourceForge Enterprise Edition. This solution is specifically  
designed to help clients address the competing forces of improving  
time to benefit, managing risk, and leveraging a globally distributed  
workforce to improve both short and long-term cost effectiveness. The  
primary focus is on enabling clients to deliver high value production  
software in 90 to 120 days.

  “VA Software is absolutely committed to integrating best-of-breed  
solutions to improve the process of building software in today’s  
global enterprises,” said Colin Bodell, CTO of VA Software. “The  
combination of VA Software’s SourceForge and ThoughtWorks’  
CruiseControl, along with its people and best practices is the ideal  
solution to enable our clients to deliver better software faster.”

About CruiseControl and Benefit of Continuous Builds
CruiseControl has been available as a stand-alone project on VA  
Software’s SourceForge.net® open source community site since 2001 and  
continues to grow in popularity. To date, it has been downloaded more  
than 100,000 times.
The practice of continuous integration represents a fundamental shift  
in the process of building software. It takes integration, commonly  
an infrequent and painful exercise, and makes it a simple, core part  
of a developer's daily activities. Integrating continuously makes  
integration a part of the natural rhythm of coding - progressing  
steadily forward by taking small steps.

CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It  
includes, but is not limited to, plugins for e-mail notification,  
Ant, and various source control tools. A Web interface is provided to  
view the details of the current and previous builds.

About ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks is a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on  
end-to-end global software development and delivery. The company’s  
pioneering approach, which includes industry acclaimed agile best  
practices, helps CIOs maximize investment performance across their  
portfolio of complex, business critical applications, while reducing  
time and risk. ThoughtWorks' 700 professionals serve clients from  
offices in six countries including Australia, Canada, China, India,  
the United Kingdom and the United States. ThoughtWorks' Web site is  
www.thoughtworks.com.

About VA Software
VA Software Corporation (NASDAQ: LNUX) is at the center of today's  
technology revolution and incites innovation by empowering the IT and  
developer communities with information, community support and  
software. VA Software is the parent company of OSTG (Open Source  
Technology Group), and the creator of SourceForge. SourceForge.net is  
the global nexus for the open source community with more than 100,000  
open source projects and over 1 million registered users. SourceForge  
Enterprise Edition is an enterprise-grade version of SourceForge for  
optimizing and managing distributed development within the  
enterprise. For more information about VA Software, visit  
www.vasoftware.com. For more information about OSTG, visit www.ostg.com.

VA Software, OSTG, and SourceForge are trademarks or registered  
trademarks of VA Software Corporation in the United States and other  
countries.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the  
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  
These statements are based on management's current expectations and  
are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual  
results may vary materially from the expectations contained in the  
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this  
release include without limitation, statements regarding VA  
Software’s commitment to integrating best-of-breed solutions to  
improve the process of building software, the faster and better  
software delivery derived by VA Software clients when ThoughtWorks’  
people and best practices integrate with SourceForge Enterprise  
Edition.  These statements are not guarantees of future performance  
and actual results could differ materially from VA Software’s current  
expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such  
differences include, but are not limited to: inability of VA Software  
to commit to integrating best-of-breed solutions to improve the  
process of building software, inability of VA Software clients to  
derive faster and better software delivery when ThoughtWorks’ people  
and best practices integrate with SourceForge Enterprise Edition, and  
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As a result, actual results may vary, perhaps materially, from those  
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