2007-09-26

San Diego, Calif., Sept. 26, 2007 - MindTouch, the wiki platform company, today announced it has reached over 100,000 wiki installations since releasing MindTouch Deki a year ago. MindTouch Deki, an open source wiki and application platform, is now being installed over 500 times a day, making it the fastest-growing wiki software on the market.

MindTouch is seeing adoption accelerating by 50% each month and trending upward. Since launching in July 2006, MindTouch Deki has added four languages (German, French, Portuguese, and Russian), over 100 new features, and received numerous awards and recognitions from reviewers and adopters alike, including endorsements from both Microsoft and Novell.

MindTouch credits its success to the quality of its platform and its thriving user community from around the world that keeps driving innovation. MindTouch Deki is free for download and use without restrictions. It integrates with numerous online services, including Google Analytics, ThinkFree Office, Windows Live Controls, and the Windows Desktop for easy wiki management. MindTouch backs MindTouch Deki with professional support contracts for businesses, enterprise and communities.

“Our ability to grow a global community so quickly is largely attributable to our product. Early adopters are the best judges of innovation, and they have emphatically voted for MindTouch with their downloads,” said Aaron Fulkerson, co-founder and VP of Products at MindTouch.

MindTouch MindTouch Deki is innovating on many levels:

• Page scripting support enables users to create content mashups with data from various applications as if they were part of the wiki.
  
• Web-oriented architecture enables new features to be added as web-services in a programming language and operating system agnostic manner.
• Comprehensive REST API enables integration with other applications using XML, JSON or PHP.
• Packaging as a VMware certified virtual appliance or as source code provides the quickest and most flexible deployment options available.

Thousands of organizations have already deployed MindTouch Deki and are reaping the benefits. Flexible and easy to use, MindTouch Deki features a polished WYSIWYG editing experience and is an ideal choice for intranets, extranets, and interactive web sites. It can also power community sites and encyclopedic resources as a platform for social content creation and aggregation. To learn more, visit http://www.MindTouch.com or MindTouch’s developer community at http://OpenGarden.org.