With a wave of great new customers and several time consuming projects coming to fruition, July has been a great month for MindTouch. One of the larger projects reaching completion is the initial launch of a new MindTouch.com website. If you haven’t seen the new site I encourage you to take a look. More iterations to the site remain, but the foundation has been laid. What you’ll discover at the new website is a more accurate depiction of the power and capabilities of MindTouch Deki and a persona-based approach to communicating the product that should make it easier to navigate the site. An interesting side note about the new website, all photos are of my co-workers at MindTouch; so, you might recognize some faces.

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The most significant project that’s been completed this month is the introduction of MindTouch Deki Enterprise Edition. The bifurcation of MindTouch Deki into two editions has long been in the works. Going forward, MindTouch Deki has a Community and an Enterprise Edition. The Community Edition will continue to be free. The Enterprise Edition is not. The two Editions differ in many important ways and there are a lot of Deki users who will now want to upgrade to the Enterprise version of MindTouch Deki.

MindTouch Deki Community Edition is unsupported and intended for developers and technical enthusiasts. MindTouch Deki Community serves as the research edition for MindTouch Deki development and is absolutely not recommended for production environments because it is running on the bleeding edge of product development.

MindTouch Deki Enterprise Edition is production ready. This is the only edition that receives comprehensive test coverage and is certified and supported by MindTouch Inc. Moreover, MindTouch Deki Enterprise Edition includes services tailored to saving organizations time and money, getting projects securely and quickly launched and makes MindTouch available when urgent support is needed. Lastly, the Enterprise Edition is the only version that can run MindTouch commercial enterprise modules.

In short, the Community Edition is where MindTouch Developers check in, while the Enterprise Edition is certified, warrantied and receives comprehensive test coverage, plus has access to free commercial modules. If you work at a company or organization that relies on MindTouch Deki for collaboration you will want to upgrade to the Enterprise Edition. All MindTouch Deki users should immediately evaluate which is right for them, Enterprise or Community.

Modules consist of application adapters for external applications or databases and also often include predefined page templates that create dashboards, dynamic reports or mashups for users from the external applications or databases. These modules are a new concept for MindTouch users. MindTouch releases free commercial enterprise modules and free community modules. Community modules are adapters to other open source projects and will remain free and able to run with the Community Edition of Deki. Commercial enterprise modules are free, but only work with the Enterprise Edition of MindTouch Deki. There already are many free commercial enterprise and free community modules available, including:

• CRM: SugarCRM, Salesforce
• Databases: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access and Microsoft ADO.NET
• Software development: Subversion, Mantis, Jira, Bugzilla, Trac
• and many more…

More information will be made available in the next month about commercial enterprise modules so stay tuned. We’re happy to demo any module and discuss with you how these solutions can improve your collaboration. If you have questions about modules or Deki Enterprise vs. Deki Community contact us today.

Thank you for your continued support of MindTouch and your enthusiasm for our product. Many of you are helping to spread the word about MindTouch by word of mouth, blogging, twitter and commenting on blog posts. Please continue to do this. Also, please help MindTouch by completing this short survey, which will only take a couple minutes. For all those of you who complete the survey or actively participate in spreading the word about MindTouch (honor system) you may email ErinL@MindTouch.com your mailing address and tshirt size. While supply lasts MindTouch will mail you a tshirt as a thank you.

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