Sun Microsystems Powers New Release of Open Source TWiki

A provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, TWIKI.NET (News - Alert), has announced a new release of open source TWiki.

 

TWiki version 4.2 software includes a new WYSIWYG editor that is easy to use and can dramatically reduce the learning curve for first time users. It also offers support for a SQL-like query language to aide the end-user in building wiki applications.

 

This software release coincides with the open source project migration to a new Sun Fire T5220 server, a Sun Fire X4450 server and a Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Gateway (News - Alert) System contributed by Sun Microsystems.

 

"The development community and TWiki users everywhere are benefiting from Sun's support and participation of the project. The improved performance we are delivering is very helpful to the open source developers and TWiki users around the world who are working on this Web 2.0 project," said Peter Thoeny, community leader, founder and CTO of TWIKI.NET.

 

"As a company, Sun is committed to open source and understands the important role TWiki plays within any organization looking to transition to a Web 2.0 collaboration solution," said Dinesh Bahal, vice president, Web and Internet Industry Practice, Sun Microsystems (News - Alert). "The TWiki project is a leading open source enterprise collaboration wiki emulated by many others. We are pleased to support the community and the project by providing resources from Sun Startup Essentials program, web servers and a new Network Attached Storage backend for storage of the development code."

 

TWiki software is used by several million people and sixty thousand organizations worldwide, including Fortune 1000 corporations, individuals, universities and non-profits.The project has more than ten thousand downloads per month.

 

The latest release of TWiki is freely available at: http://www.twiki.org/.

 

TWIKI.NET was founded in 2007 to provide enterprise class software, support, and services based on open source TWiki, the open source enterprise wiki. The company offers behind-the-firewall solutions and an enterprise class hosted services called TWiki OnDemand. The company is committed to supporting the development of open source TWiki and empowering collaboration within organizations around the globe.