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MindTouch Deki provides syntax highlighting for 15 programming languages, for code documentation. “Itasca” adds many improvements to the user interface making it easier than ever to access the power of the platform.

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MindTouch Releases MindTouch Deki “Itasca”; the Ultimate Software Developer Collaboration and Mashup Platform

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:

“Smart Linking” automatically suggests the most relevant pages and files for links
Improved performance, and more than 100 bugs squashed
Improved support for OpenLDAP, eDirectory, and ActiveDirectory
And more…

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.

About MindTouch

MindTouch Inc., makers of MindTouch 2009, is changing the way businesses share information, consume content, and collaborate. MindTouch 2009 combines the ease of use of a wiki with the scalability, security and integration capabilities of an enterprise portal that connects enterprise systems, databases, web services, and Web 2.0 apps to collaborate more efficiently, automate and organize raw data into actionable information that is updated dynamically from disconnected data sources. MindTouch 2009 empowers users to:

Increase productivity with enterprise wiki collaboration
Improve operational efficiency through business automation, dashboards, dynamic reports and enterprise mashups
Rapidly develop custom collaboration and social applications or enterprise situational applications MindTouch has hundreds of thousands of installations worldwide and a long list of Fortune 500 customers.

Customers, such as Mozilla, Microsoft, Intel, Intuit, The Washington Post, EMC, Harvard, Timberland, The US Army and The United Nations, are reporting double-digit percentage increases in productivity and orders of magnitude of return on investment from their MindTouch-powered collaboration and communities.

For more information: http://www.mindtouch.com.