OPEN SOURCE COLLABORATION & INTEGRATION
San Diego, Calif., March 18, 2008 - MindTouch today announced the release of MindTouch Deki “Itasca”––the latest version of its award-winning open source collaboration platform. MindTouch Deki “Itasca” adds new capabilities to meet the growing collaboration need for project managers and development teams.
MindTouch Deki source code and VMware image are available for download at http://MindTouch.com for free and without restriction. Also new in “Itasca” is the ability to deploy MindTouch Deki directly on Amazon EC2.
MindTouch Deki project management features connect teams of developers, leads, and testers throughout the software development lifecycle. Developers now benefit from integration with Atlassian Jira, Trac, Mantis, and Subversion to get real-time reports of bugs and code check-ins, providing a unified interface to all systems.
Furthermore, MindTouch Deki provides syntax highlighting for 15 programming languages, including PHP, Ruby, and C#, for sample code and documentation.
MindTouch Deki “Itasca” also adds many improvements to the user interface making it easier than ever to access the power of the platform. Teams can instantly bring their content to life, by combining components and applications from across the Web––with access to hundreds of services from Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and others. With MindTouch Deki, users can collaborate instantly, share data across systems, and present information compellingly.
Other improvements include:
MindTouch Deki is a free open-source collaboration platform for authoring, aggregating, organizing, and sharing content. With over 250,000 installations, MindTouch Deki is the world’s most popular vendor-backed enterprise wiki. To learn more, visit http://MindTouch.com or MindTouch’s developer community at http://OpenGarden.org.
Founded in 2005 and based in San Diego, Calif., MindTouch (wiki.mindtouch.com) is an open source wiki platform company.
MindTouch wiki communities are deployed by small to large enterprises, research institutions, government agencies, media companies and online communities worldwide. Customers include Fujitsu, Siemens, Gazette Communications, U.S. Army, EMC2 and others.
The company is actively engaged in the open source community and is dedicated to cultivating ideas and solutions through its unique OpenGarden portal (www.opengarden.org).