Potsdam, Germany, February 28, 2007 -- Mindquarry GmbH, developer of the Mindquarry Collaboration Server, today announced the general availability of version 1.0 of their Mindquarry Collaboration Server. Starting today the Mindquarry Collaboration Server can be downloaded under the open source MPL license. The Mindquarry Collaboration Server is a complete suite of integrated tools for better collaboration and teamwork. It includes a file sharing repository, a Wiki and a task management system that allows teams to keep track of their documents, ideas and tasks.

"With the alpha release of Mindquarry, affordable distributed collaboration becomes possible for mall companies and teams" says Stephan Voigt, CEO of Mindquarry. Lars Trieloff, co-founder and COO of Mindquarry adds: "tools and techniques well known in open source software development are finally available for all knowledge workers."

The Mindquarry Collaboration Server, including desktop clients, graphical installers, documentation and source code, is available for free under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL).

Mindquarry can be obtained from the Mindquarry Download Site (www.mindquarry.com/downloads/) for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Core Features

• Team Management - teams and team members can be added to the Mindquarry system in minutes, making it easy to start a new project or undertaking
• File Sharing - Mindquarry stores all files of a team including full version history and allows synchronization of the shared files with team member's desktop computers, allowing offline work
• Wiki - The Mindquarry Wiki features WYSIWYG-editing, easy linking of documents and can be used as a store for ideas, definitions and other information
• Tasks - Mindquarry tasks allows team members to share to-do-lists with a user-defined degree of information concerning status, priority, due dates and responsibilities

Underlying Technology

"Mindquarry's pace of development had been unthinkable without the use of high-quality open source omponents, libraries and frameworks used" says Lars Trieloff, co-founder and COO of Mindquarry. Among the echnologies used are:

• Apache Cocoon Web Application Framework
• Apache Jackrabbit Content Repository
• Dojo Ajax toolkit
• Subversion version control system
  

Mindquarry Sponsorship

The Mindquarry Open Source project is incited and maintained by Mindquarry GmbH. Significant hardware donations to the Mindquarry project have been made by Cluster Labs.

About Mindquarry

Mindquarry was founded in the summer of 2006 by three graduate students of the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam, Germany. The founders set out to build better tools for knowledge workers,the result - Mindquarry, the Open Source Collaborative Software for file sharing, tasks management and Wiki editing. For a fast startup, Mindquarry got financial backing through the Hasso Plattner Ventures; Hasso Plattner being a co-founder of SAP. More information about Mindquarry is available on the Internet at www.mindquarry.com.