Subversion has been recognized with numerous industry awards such as the 2005 Jolt Product Excellence Award, and the 2006 Developer.com Product of the Year Finalist Award.
Subversion is available under an Apache/BSD-style license and runs on all modern flavors of UNIX, Win32, BeOS, OS/2, OS/400 and Mac OS X. To date, Subversion has been installed on more than 120.000 public Apache servers (source: SecuritySpace.com) and it is estimated that more than 1.75 million developers worldwide use Subversion to version their source code.
The home site of the Subversion project is Tigris.org (http://www.tigris.org ), an open source community focused on building better tools for collaborative software development.
Source: Digital50