TWiki.org Announces Version 4.0 of its Powerful Enterprise
Collaboration Platform
Feb 1st, 14:41 UTC
TWiki Release 4.0 provides additional features to run dynamic intranet sites, share knowledge, and let employees work effectively with light-weight wiki applications. TWiki is a mission critical system at major corporations such as Google, Motorola, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo!
San Jose, California, 01 Feb 2006 - TWiki.org today announced version 4.0 of its popular enterprise collaboration platform TWiki. Code-named Dakar, the structured wiki features highly-requested features including a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor, an enhanced security model, and a REST (representational state transfer) interface, among others. TWiki release 4.0 is immediately available through http://twiki.org/.
"The TWiki Dakar team has been working relentlessly to make this
release available for the many thousand organizations using our free collaboration software," said TWiki founder Peter Thoeny who manages the open-sourced project for the last seven years. He adds, "I'm very excited about the new features it offers. I believe that our new WYSIWYG editor will encourage more people to use TWiki. We've also added features that will strengthen TWiki's position as a platform to build and run wiki applications. Hopefully this will encourage more non-programmers to build functionality customized to their needs."
Jon Bultmeyer, Director Engineering, Identity Provisioning at Novell, Inc. agrees, "Novell looks forward to this next release of TWiki. Novell uses TWiki as a central knowledge repository that facilitates knowledge sharing among our globally dispersed engineering teams. TWiki has increased our productivity by making it easier to both post and consume the information needed to coordinate activities, transfer best practices, and work on innovative projects."
Additional features in TWiki 4.0 release include a simple install and configuration, integrated session support, fine grained change notification, parameterized includes, named include sections, search enhancements, and an internationalization framework with Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portugese and Spanish translations.
About TWiki Enterprise Collaboration Platform:
TWiki is the leading open-sourced enterprise wiki and pioneered wiki applications, small programs that foster collaboration. TWiki extends the free-form world of wikis by adding structure - content can be browsed, searched, grouped, categorized, filtered and access restricted. TWiki looks and feels like a normal intranet or web site, and can be easily modified through standard web browsers.
TWiki, with its server-side Plugin API, is a platform where developers and non-programmers can build groupware applications in an efficient way. Currently, more than 200 Plugins and add-ons can be added to TWiki, such as the BlogPlugin that turns TWiki into a weblog tool. TWiki and its extensions are available for download from the TWiki.org website.
About TWiki.org:
TWiki.org's mission is to provide a leading edge, web-based collaboration platform targeting the corporate Intranet world. TWiki.org, through TWiki, fosters information flow within an organization; lets distributed teams work together seamlessly and productively; and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content. Founded in 1997 by Peter Thoeny and managed by a team of open-source software engineers around the world, TWiki is installed and used by thousands of companies including Google, Motorola, SAP, and Yahoo!. For more information on open-sourced TWiki, please head to http://twiki.org/.
About Novell:
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers Software for the Open Enterprise. With more than 50,000 customers in 43 countries, Novell helps customers manage, simplify, secure and integrate their technology environments by leveraging best-of-breed, open standards-based software. With over 20 years of experience, more than 5,000 employees, 5,000 partners and support centers around the world, Novell helps customers gain control over their IT operating environment while reducing cost. More information about Novell can be found at http://www.novell.com/.
(Submitted by Peter Thoeny of TWiki)
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