Subversion is a distributed application; therefore, it can access its database across networks. This allows people to use Subversion on different computers and fosters collaboration by allowing various people to modify and manage the same set of data from their respective locations. Furthermore, progress can occur more quickly because there is no single conduit through which all modifications must occur. Because the work is versioned, we prevent the possibility of losing that conduit if an incorrect change is made to the data, in that the change can be easily undone.