Socialtext Releases First Commercial Open Source Wiki

Portland, July 24th 2006 :: Socialtext, the first Wiki company, releases Socialtext Open at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). Available for immediate download, Socialtext Open is the first open source wiki with a commercial venture as its primary contributor. Over 2,000 businesses run Socialtext Wiki products today as a hosted service or appliance.

Based on the same great product, Socialtext Open is released under a standard open source license, and contains all of Socialtext’s enterprise grade code aside from enterprise management and enterprise integration tools. Socialtext also announced the availability of its Technical Professional Service, a new SOAP API and the Socialtext Open Roadmap for the next three months.

“This release completes Socialtext’s transformation into a commercial open source business,” said Socialtext CEO Ross Mayfield. “Wikis have a rich open source tradition that we are proud to be a part of. Socialtext Open provides businesses an easy-to-use wiki designed for professional use. Freedom included.”

Socialtext’s first commercial open source offering was Wikiwyg, an AJAX-based WYSIWYG editor. Last month Socialtext announced a partnership with Dan Bricklin to distribute and co-develop wikiCalc, the wiki spreadsheet, under an open source license. Socialtext has had open source heritage throughout the company’s history, leveraging and contributing to the Kwiki project. For other open source contributions, see http://socialtext.net/stoss

Socialtext’s product line now includes:

* Socialtext Open – Socialtext’s enterprise strength Wiki under an Open Source license
* Socialtext Personal – Socialext’s free for up to five users and Open Source efforts hosted service
* Socialtext Professional – hosted service subscription
* Socialtext Enterprise – Socialtext’s BTF (“Behind the Firewall”) enterprise-grade appliance

Technical Professional Service

For organizations that require technical support, consulting and developer services for Socialtext Open, Technical Professional Services are available under a service contract for a flat rate of $240 per hour.

Socialtext Technical Professional Services complement Socialtext Professional Service options such as training, adoption consulting and management consulting available at variable rates. For further information about Socialtext services, contact [email protected].

Socialtext Public License

Drawing from its Perl luminary roots, Socialtext releases all its products under SPL, a derivative of the liberal OSI-compliant Mozilla Public 1.1 license. Socialtext will make other products on its roadmap available under this license as well, opening its codebase to all users on a liberal and ongoing basis.

SOAP API

Socialtext also announced its new Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Application Programming Interface to enable developers to integrate and extend Socialtext Open. Documentation is available at http://socialtext.net/stoss/?SOAP_API

The Road to Palladium

Socialtext also shared its Public Roadmap to help guide the developer community for the next three months. The roadmap includes a source code repository, Debian, Red Hat, SOAP and REST APIs, usability enhancements, and additional DBMS management beyond Postgres, starting with MySQL. The release at the end of this period, code-named Palladium, will mark the open availability of the first enterprise grade, corporate backed, Wiki to enthusiasts and commercial users alike. The Public Roadmap is available at http://socialtext.net/stoss/?Public_Roadmap

About Socialtext

Socialtext is the first wiki company, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, enabling enterprises to be more productive with wikis, a commons-based knowledge tool. Socialtext makes secure wikis used daily by global companies for daily project communication and intranet-like needs. Wikis are group-editable websites that are private, linkable and searchable. Socialtext offers several deployment options, including hosted service, open source, on-premise and appliance-based solutions to suit customers’ security, integration and configuration needs. 2,000 enterprises use Socialtext, including Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, IKEA, Kodak, Nokia, and Symantec. http://www.socialtext.com

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