As Record Growth Continues, MindTouch Appoints New CFO

August 10th, 2010 | | Press Release

SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 10, 2010 — MindTouch, the company that transforms great work into strategic content, today announced the appointment of Byoung Lee as CFO. Amid another year of record growth for the company, Lee brings considerable experience to MindTouch and promises to be instrumental in the ongoing strategic direction of the company.

MindTouch is on track to triple revenues in 2010, demonstrating continued impressive growth since its previous record performance in 2009. MindTouch has also added hundreds of new customers including Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, Dachis Group, AutoDesk, Panasonic, HP, Trimble, Hydro Quebec, City of Boston, Comcast, Kaplan, Alcatel-Lucent, USITC, Valassis, and LPK. Also of note is the recent release of MindTouch 2010, the company’s first specialized tool-set for social documentation and strategic content, and a successful expansion into Europe with the opening of a London office and the first official international user and partner conference this week in London.

Byoung LeeMr. Lee brings over 15 years of extensive financial, strategic, and operational leadership from a diverse range of industries to MindTouch. Lee was a Partner and High-technology Practice Leader at Tatum, LLC, providing business assessments, strategies and solutions for clients across industries. In his capacity as CFO and in other executive roles at QLP, REMEC, and JMAR, Lee led presentations, negotiations, and closing of numerous strategic transactions. In addition, Lee formulated and executed many operational initiatives that produced measurable results, including efficiency/productivity improvements, cost/cash optimizations, and a business excellence program. Lee holds an MBA from the University of Redlands and a BS-Finance from San Diego State University.

“I’m thrilled to have Byoung with us at MindTouch” said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO and co-founder of MindTouch. “He has a proven track record with both growth and publicly traded companies. He’s already demonstrated real value as we continue our rapid growth and expansion. Moreover, he’s a great guy to get a beer with.”

“MindTouch is clearly on the cutting edge of the collaboration space. I’m especially excited by the recent focus on web content authoring, publishing and curation in the context of user manuals and strategic content,” said Byoung Lee, CFO of MindTouch. “I am very impressed with the favorable responses from the companies around the world to MindTouch products. There is lot of energy and passion here — It’s an exciting place to be.”

The company also announced plans to add over 50 new positions, with an emphasis on product development, in the coming months to further accelerate growth. Lee will take an active role in guiding the company’s expansion strategy for staff, systems, and infrastructure.

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Booz Allen Hamilton Chooses MindTouch to Power Their Next-Generation Intranet

June 15th, 2010 | | Press Release

MindTouch offers flexibility and scalability to “Hello.bah.com’ that was previously unavailable

Booz Allen Hamilton: A Strategy and Technology Consulting Firm
MindTouch Inc.

San Diego, CA June 15, 2010– MindTouch, the company that transforms great work into strategic content, today announced that it has been chosen as a strategic component powering Booz Allen Hamilton’s acclaimed Hello.bah.com collaborative intranet. Booz Allen Hamilton, the prominent technology consulting firm, chose MindTouch based on the flexibility and extensibility of the solution.

“We are thrilled to have Booz Allen Hamilton using the MindTouch platform,” said Aaron Fulkerson, Founder and CEO of MindTouch. “Booz Allen has done amazing things with Hello.bah.com, and we are pleased to be contributing to their innovative and award-winning efforts.”

Booz Allen Hamilton’s Hello.bah.com is using MindTouch to deliver a better-integrated user experience and improved discovery capabilities. In addition, the new Hello.bah.com will feature a unique content rating system and a strengthened search processes. MindTouch now powers over 18,000 pages in the Hello.bah.com intranet.

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About Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for nearly a century. Today, the firm provides professional services primarily to US government agencies in the defense, security, and civil sectors, as well as to corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Booz Allen offers clients deep functional knowledge spanning strategy and organization, technology, operations, and analytics — which it combines with specialized expertise in clients’ mission and domain areas to help solve their toughest problems.

Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs more than 22,000 people, and has annual revenues of over $5 billion. To learn more, visit www.boozallen.com.

Dachis Group Chooses MindTouch as Strategic Platform to Power Collaboratory

June 11th, 2010 | | Press Release

The Leader in Social Business Design selects the MindTouch platform to help define and build the future of enterprise collaboration

Dachis Group
MindTouch Inc.

San Diego, CA June 11, 2010– MindTouch, the company that transforms great work into strategic content, today announced that it has been chosen as part of the strategic platform responsible for powering the Dachis Group’s Collaboratory. MindTouch was chosen based on the value, platform architecture, flexibility and extensibility in managing Social Business content.

The Dachis Group Collaboratory sets the high water mark for experimenting and operationalizing social business deployments. It is an internal ‘collaboration laboratory’, which connects enterprise silos, provides client services and best practices documentation, project and initiative management capabilities, a CRM implementation, social media monitoring, and more. Dachis architects and developers delivered the initial phase of the Collaboratory in just over two months time and continue to innovate with the rapid application development capabilities of MindTouch.

“With the Collaboratory, Dachis Group continues to prove that they are the thought leaders in social business design and implementation,” said Aaron Fulkerson, Founder and CEO of MindTouch. “It’s an outstanding example of innovation in the Enterprise 2.0 space, and we’re pleased to be delivering part of the enabling technology. A company is made by its customers and I’m excited that MindTouch is used in the industry’s most innovative collaboration initiatives.”

“Collaboration technologies either deliver specialized point applications, which are difficult to extend and integrate or monolithic platforms that are hard to use and expensive to develop on,” said Bryan Menell, Collaboratory Director, Dachis Group. “With MindTouch, we had immediate value and were able to quickly create and iterate custom applications that serve the complex and evolving needs of our constituents. It’s a great platform for a collaboration laboratory.”

More on the Dachis Group Collaboratory can be found at: http://www.dachisgroup.com/blog/

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About Dachis Group

Dachis Group has developed a framework for Social Business Design by addressing organizational change across business systems, process, and culture.

Dachis Group provides professional management consulting and advisory services, process design, program management, information design, marketing, change communication, and technical implementation services across three main practice areas: Customer Participation and Engagement, Workforce Collaboration, and Business Partner Optimization.

Dachis Group serves global companies including: Alcatel, AXA, BP, Best Buy, British Airways, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, DeVry University, Intuit, Southern Company and Yum! Brands.

Dachis Group (Dachis Corporation, Inc.) was created to unlock the value of social technologies for large corporate enterprises. Founded in 2008, by Jeffrey Dachis, Dachis Group services companies all around the globe with offices in seven cities in five countries. Dachis Group is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in Portland, Oregon, St. Louis, Missouri, London, England, Sydney, Australia, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Madrid, Spain. Dachis Group operates as Dachis Group, Headshift, part of the Dachis Group, The 2.0 Adoption Council, part of the Dachis Group and XPLANE, part of the Dachis Group.

The company’s strategy is backed by a commitment from Austin Ventures to build and grow organically and through acquisitions.

If you are interested in finding out how Dachis Group can help your business, contact: inquiries@dachisgroup.com.

For more resources: Stay on top of the most current thinking on Social Business Design in the Dachis Group Collaboratory: http://www.dachisgroup.com/blog

To learn more about Social Business Design, download our Social Business Design white paper free of charge: http://www.dachisgroup.com/PDFs/Social_Business_Design.pdf

ClimateLab.org Launches First-of-Its-Kind Content Collaboration Network

May 4th, 2010 | | Press Release

Climate Institute and LAC-CORE Become First NGOs to Publish Climate Lab Content on their Websites – Over 250 wiki articles & 350 user accounts generated since Climate Lab kickoff

ClimateLabWashington, May 04, 2010 — A year after launching climatelab.org, a community website and wiki on climate change issues, the DC-based nonprofit Climate Lab announced today that it has founded a new collaborative network to syndicate its climate change content. The launch of Climate Lab Networks marks the first time a public site has attempted to syndicate open-sourced climate change content across multiple websites.

Climate Lab Networks will provide partners with customized streaming access to Climate Lab’s wiki content, allowing partners to republish and rebrand the live content within their own sites. The Climate Institute and the Latin American and Caribbean Council on Renewable Energy (LAC-CORE) are the first NGOs to join Climate Lab Networks.

“Climate Lab is positioned to become a shared content management system for the global community of organizations working to address climate change,” said Adam Tapley, Climate Lab’s Managing Director. “Sharing benefits everyone. By sharing content, stakeholders help define a common language and a common set of metrics to identify better solutions and evaluate the success of their efforts.”

“As a practical matter, joining Climate Lab Networks is a low-cost way to develop an extremely dynamic website,” said Climate Institute founder and CEO John Topping. “We expect that Climate Lab will help us spread our message about environmental education and effective responses to climate change.”

Since launching a year ago, Climate Lab, which is built on MindTouch’s enterprise collaboration platform, has emerged as a leading clearinghouse on climate-related data and issues, collectively edited by over 350 climate professionals, academics, students and concerned individuals across the world who volunteer their time. Articles on Climate Lab can be collaboratively authored and edited freely by any registered climatelab.org user.

See it in Action

Here’s a simple example of how the service works: pages which originate on Climate Lab, such as an article on “Small Island Developing States“, can now be published on partner websites, like the Climate Institute.

MindTouch, recently named by Forrester as the open-source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, provides an open-source collaboration platform that enables tens of millions of users globally to connect and customize enterprise systems, social tools and web services. The MindTouch platform makes it possible for non-programmers to connect enterprise systems, databases and web-services in the context of an easy-to-use collaborative environment. For Climate Lab, this creates a powerful platform for rapidly publishing and syndicating its content.

Climate Lab announced the official launch of Climate Lab Networks at the one-year anniversary party celebrating the launch of climatelab.org, Thursday, April 8 at Local 16, a popular bar and restaurant in Washington DC. Keynote remarks at the event were made by Climate Lab board member Scott Sklar of the Stella Group, Ltd. Sklar is the former Executive Director for both the Solar Energy Industries Association and the National BioEnergy Industries Association.

“By allowing NGOs and other groups to stream their content into each other’s websites, Climate Lab is giving these diversified sources and specialists a reason to come together under one roof – and maybe just in the nick of time,” said Sklar.

For more information, please contact: Adam Tapley, Managing Director, Climate Lab, (202) 640-1899 (work), (617) 894-5521 (cell), atapley@climatelab.org

About Climate Lab

Climate Lab is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to drive action on climate change-related issues by improving knowledge sharing and collaboration. To this end, in 2009 Climate Lab launched climatelab.org, a community website and wiki on climate change where content can be collaboratively authored and edited freely by registered users. In April 2010, Climate Lab founded Climate Lab Networks, a new collaborative network and service to syndicate its content – marking the first time a public site has syndicated open-source climate change content across multiple websites.

For more information on Climate Lab, or to view the climate change site: climatelab.org.

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MindTouch Unleashes the Power of Big Data with Newest Release

April 26th, 2010 | | Press Release

Newest version of industry’s leading collaboration platform delivers up to 12x performance improvement for ‘data-heavy’ sites

SAN DIEGO, April 26, 2010 — MindTouch, the industry’s leading open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, today announced the availability of the newest version of the MindTouch Collaboration Platform, the best solution for how teams and companies collaborate today. This newest release enables companies that service large numbers of online users to confidently unleash the power of rich media, data transfer and rapid application development to their collaboration experience.

As customers have been successful in developing their own micro-apps on top of the MindTouch platform, this performance boost not only improves the speed of native applications, but integrates a new level of speed in customer and partner applications.

“MindTouch’s new feature set will be a welcome addition to maintaining our online presence”, said Miguel de Icaza, Vice President, Developer Platform at Novell. “We’re very pleased with MindTouch as a platform for all of our new content sites, particularly as we continue to see exponential data increases.”

“Performance is critical to the success of our customers, many of whom service millions of users each day,” said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch. “As these sites continue to grow in size and complexity, this performance boost will enable them to breathe new life into legacy apps, and seamlessly manage large amounts of data and applications, while continuing to adopt new users.”

The term “Big Data” is continuing to gain traction within the IT and enterprise 2.0 communities. “Big Data” is a particularly relevant concept to MindTouch customers managing volumes upon volumes of digital media files and/or millions of site visitors, as well as those whose applications rapidly change to meet market needs.

MindTouch has leveraged its extensible and robust WOA/REST architecture to seamlessly employ the new performance boost through an efficient code library edition, obviating the need for customers to have to re-install a new product. The release is being made available as a simple upgrade to existing and new commercial customers of the MindTouch platform.

Download your copy of MindTouch Enterprise today.

MindTouch is the industry’s leading provider of enterprise collaboration solutions in a market that continues to grow rapidly as more companies are operating under “lite” IT budgets for the foreseeable future. Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is predicted by Forrester to grow strongly over the next five years, reaching $4.6 billion globally by 2013.

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MindTouch Releases Integration with SugarCRM

April 14th, 2010 | | Press Release

Leading open source collaboration platform and leading commercial open source CRM provider combine to enable collaborative CRM for organizations of all sizes.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. APRIL 14, 2010 — MindTouch, the industry’s leading open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, , today announced that it has integrated with SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. By bringing these two powerful software platforms together, organizations of all sizes can create dynamic and innovative collaborations across their businesses, specific to improved customer and service relationships. MindTouch made the announcement today at SugarCon, SugarCRM’s annual user and partner conference. MindTouch also announced its partnership with Levementum, the leading SugarCRM reseller.

“The power of MindTouch and SugarCRM increases in strength when the two are seamlessly working together through this new integration,” said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch. “Our work in forming a relationship with Levementum furthers our effectiveness in distributing this extremely powerful technology for collaborating around and building upon customer relationships.”

The MindTouch and SugarCRM joint solution enables sales teams to collaborate on the sales process by creating team sites for sales and/or services engagements. Given that the average five or six-figure sales transaction can encompass hundreds of emails, phone calls and notes, all with very specific information, the advantages of having an actionable base of interconnected information gives these teams more clout toward sealing the deal, identifying opportunities for upselling, and adding value in many additional ways. Services account teams, managing multiple revisions of service agreements and statements of work, are further assisted by this powerful integration as it helps them identify opportunities, track customer conversations and build upon account relationships to add additional streams of revenue.

“The combination of MindTouch and Sugar allows us to cater to the most demanding collaborative sales, marketing and support organizations,” said Clint Oram, co-founder and vice president of products at SugarCRM. “These two platforms enable organizations to quickly and easily share all the critical data, documents and internal expertise needed to operate at peak levels.”

Download your copy of MindTouch Enterprise today.

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About SugarCRM

SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. Over 6,000 customers and more than half a million users rely on SugarCRM to execute marketing programs, grow sales, retain customers and create custom business applications. Leading publications such as CRM Magazine, InfoWorld and eWeek praise SugarCRM for its ease-of-use, flexibility and open design. SugarCRM runs on the leading cloud computing platforms, including Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Sugar On-Demand and Private Clouds, offering customers unparalleled choice and control of their data and deployments.

For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.

MindTouch and Levementum Announce Joint Solution Defining Collaborative CRM

April 13th, 2010 | | Press Release

Leading Open Source Collaborative Solution Now Available with the Leading Open Source CRM Solution, SugarCRM, and Delivered by the Leading Open Source Systems Integrator, Levementum

SAN DIEGO, April 13, 2010 — MindTouch, the industry’s leading open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, today announced its partnership with Levementum, the industry leading open source systems integration firm, enabling sales collaboration solutions that redefine collaborative CRM, through MindTouch’s availability as an integration with SugarCRM. MindTouch announces this collaboration during the week of SugarCon 2010 in San Francisco, where Aaron Fulkerson, MindTouch CEO, will be speaking on Tuesday, April 13, 11:45-12:30 in a session entitled, “Collaborative CRM Is the Center of the Enterprise 2.0 Universe.”

This new integration with SugarCRM and delivered by Levementum, allows teams to create — automatically and directly from the SugarCRM opportunity — new sales opportunity collaboration pages; create configurable templates for sales opportunities; develop standardized materials for key sales deliverables such as contracts and memorandums; and maintain the height of version control. The integration further provides automatic access to internal team members, partners, and customers. As such, SugarCRM, MindTouch and Levementum are allowing sales team easier paths to sealing deals, better forecasting of business growth, and an improved view into the opportunities that will most benefit their overall business.

“MindTouch has the smartest available collaboration platform for integration with SugarCRM — where the customer’s needs and requirements can be collected, stored and translated into specifications defining the sale and where all key players can be brought together around the negotiation leading to sale,” said Geoffrey Mobisson, Managing Director of Technology and Partnerships. “There’s also no replacement for the standardization of contractual documents that comes with use of a system as robust as MindTouch.”

“The art of sales is a collaborative process involving sales, sales operations, the customer and often third parties, with as much as 75 percent of sales process cycle time spent on collaborative activities,” said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch. “We make that a more smooth and predictable process with the SugarCRM integration, providing standardization of sales deliverables where such benefit has been largely lacking. Levementum has been invaluable in bringing this new offering to fruition.”

MindTouch is the industry’s leading provider of enterprise collaboration solutions in a market that continues to grow rapidly as more companies are operating under “lite” IT budgets for the foreseeable future. Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is predicted by Forrester to grow strongly over the next five years, reaching $4.6 billion globally by 2013.

About Levementum

Levementum is a leading professional services firm focused on delivering world-class implementations of Open Source Enterprise Software, including CRM, ERP and e*Commerce solutions. Levementum’s Open Source Practice shows companies how to leverage open source information technology and innovate. As an implementation partner and system integrator of SugarCRM, MindTouch, Magento, Compiere and Pentaho, Levementum has led dozens of change management and technology implementations over the company’s lifetime, and it’s “PILLAR” implementation methodology enables rapid deployment and helps customers maximize the value of their investment through process consulting, project leadership, adoption and training programs, application development, integration and business intelligence.

For further information about our services, please visit our website: http://www.levementum.com or contact us directly at +1 (480) 320-2520.

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About SugarCRM

SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. Over 6,000 customers and more than half a million users rely on SugarCRM to execute marketing programs, grow sales, retain customers and create custom business applications. Leading publications such as CRM Magazine, InfoWorld and eWeek praise SugarCRM for its ease-of-use, flexibility and open design. SugarCRM runs on the leading cloud computing platforms, including Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Sugar On-Demand and Private Clouds, offering customers unparalleled choice and control of their data and deployments.

For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.

MindTouch Announces First-Ever “Most Powerful Voices in Open Source” Ranking

March 17th, 2010 | | Press Release

MindTouch leverages wealth of Enterprise and Web 2.0 metrics to identify the most powerful “broadcasters” of the open source message

MindTouch Most Powerful VoiceOpen Source Business Conference, SAN FRANCISCO, March 17, 2010 — MindTouch, the open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, today announced its publishing of the “Most Powerful Voices in Open Source” (MPV) ranking. The list presents the top 50 most vocal, followed and repeated/re-posted open source commentators, representing several spheres of influence, including media, vendors, OSS projects, standards bodies, community management and more.

Created by MindTouch, the MPV ranking draws from the wide array of metrics available through Web and Enterprise 2.0 channels, including Twitter, Google News alerts, unique online visitor counts and analysis of the related “buzz” of vendor/project affiliations. This compilation was created using the MindTouch platform, federating these data sources, applying varied weighting, and processing it for delivery of the ranking. The list, which includes members worldwide from organizations such as Ars Technica, Canonical, Google and SpringSource, is available in its entirety here: www.mindtouch.com/blog.

The top 5 MPVs are:

  • Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media
  • Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, open source advocate
  • Chris Messina, open web advocate, Google
  • Miguel de Icaza, founder, Mono and Gnome projects
  • Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems

“It’s about time someone has put together a metrics-based ranking of open source influencers,” said Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM. “Community advocacy is the major thrust of the spirit of open source, and communities have leaders. This list does a great job of identifying those leading voices.”

“Open source is collaborative by its very nature, and we are lucky to have so many vocal leaders communicating on the industry’s behalf,” said Ian Howells, CMO, Alfresco. “The fact these voices from every avenue of influence – media, vendors and end-users alike – demonstrates the continued importance of open source and community collaboration.”

“You’ll see that this ranking is no popularity contest, there are a number of surprises outside of the ‘usual suspects’ often seen on this type of list,” said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of MindTouch. “This is because we let the numbers do the talking, instead of an emotions-based market perception that too frequently comes into play.”

MindTouch is the industry’s leading provider of enterprise collaboration solutions in a market that continues to grow rapidly as more companies are operating under “lite” IT budgets for the foreseeable future. Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is predicted by Forrester to grow strongly over the next five years, reaching $4.6 billion globally by 2013.

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MindTouch CEO to Present the Benefits of Collaborative CRM at SugarCon 2010

March 9th, 2010 | | Press Release

Leading open source collaboration provider will reveal the value of adding collaborative solutions to CRM deployments

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — March 9, 2010 — MindTouch, the open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, will present at this year’s SugarCon event in San Francisco, being held April 12-14. SugarCon 2010 unites CRM customers and developers with companies and projects committed to building open business applications for the Cloud. Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of MindTouch will lead the discussion, aimed at highlighting how companies can gain from adding next-generation, open collaboration tools to their existing CRM initiatives.

Session Details:

Collaborative CRM is the Center of the Enterprise 2.0 Universe

  • Topic: The definition of effective customer management has completely changed – gone are the days of transactional, point to point phone calls and emails. The relationship building process has become more open and participatory, and requires collaborative capabilities – an open environment of teams, communities and forums. These methods dramatically improve the relationship that companies like yours can have with their customers and partners. This session will discuss this new approach and the underlying technology required to make it a reality.
  • Presenter: Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch
  • Date and time: Tuesday, April 13 11:45AM PDT
  • Location: Palace Hotel, San Francisco

MindTouch is also a Gold sponsor of the SugarCon event. Representatives from MindTouch will be available to provide further information at the MindTouch booth, located in the SugarCon exhibitors’ hall inside the Palace Hotel’s Garden Court.

SugarCon 2010, SugarCRM’s fourth annual user and customer conference, brings together SugarCRM users, developers, partners and industry experts from around the world. Packed with more than 100 sessions, SugarCon provides a wealth of practical knowledge that any business can apply to improve performance and differentiate in the market.

For more information about SugarCon, visit: http://www.sugarcon.com.

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Open Source Industry Luminary Sam Ramji Joins the MindTouch Advisory Board

February 23rd, 2010 | | Press Release

Ramji Joins Executives from SugarCRM and Canonical to Provide Strategic Insight as MindTouch Brings Collaborative Networking to the Enterprise

SAN DIEGO, February 23, 2010 — MindTouch, the open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, today announced that technology thought leader and open source veteran Sam Ramji has joined its advisory board. Mr. Ramji will provide strategic insight and guidance to the MindTouch executive team as it positions the company for continued market capture in the enterprise collaborative networking space.

“Having Sam join our advisory board is a testimony to how much MindTouch has accomplished,” said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch. “Sam’s insights into technology adoption will be extremely valuable to us as we continue to lead innovation in the enterprise collaboration market. We are thrilled to be working with him and look forward to his contributions.”

Mr. Ramji, currently the Vice President of Strategy at Sonoa Systems, brings over 15 years of diverse experience in enterprise software, product development, and the open source community. Previous to Sonoa Systems, he drove many of Microsoft’s contributions to open source. Ramji was also a leader in BEA’s move into cross-platform initiatives as a founding member of the AquaLogic product team. Prior to that he led the Ofoto engineering team through its acquisition by Kodak.

“I firmly believe that MindTouch’s technology and vision will drive fundamental change to the next generation of collaborative networking” said Ramji. “I am excited to share my views and expertise, helping MindTouch lead collaboration adoption in the enterprise.”

MindTouch has been recognized as the leading alternative to SharePoint for enterprise collaboration. To capitalize on the market opportunity at hand, MindTouch has assembled the industry’s most impressive roster of industry advisors to help best position MindTouch. Ramji joins existing MindTouch advisory board members including Matt Asay and Larry Augustin, a veritable ’who’s who’ of top open source business influencers recognized by leading industry analysts and journalists within the open source community.

Matt Asay currently serves as the COO of Canonical, the company behind the fast-growing Ubuntu open source operating system. He is one of the industry’s leading open source business strategists who has been involved with open source since 1998.

Larry Augustin is currently the CEO of SugarCRM, an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He was CEO and founder of VA Linux (now SourceForge) (NASDAQ:LNUX) and has written and spoken extensively on open source worldwide.

To learn more about the MindTouch Advisory Team, please visit our company page.

To download your copy of MindTouch Enterprise, please visit our product page.

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