July 14, 2010 8:09 AM - SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atlassian, leader in software tools for streamlining product development, today announced the closing of a USD $60M investment from Accel Partners for a minority equity position. Rich Wong, Partner at Accel Partners, will join Atlassian's board of directors. The funds will fuel Atlassian's continued leadership in software development and enterprise collaboration tools, through accelerated expansion into Europe and Asia and additional focus on M&A to add complementary products to the Atlassian portfolio. The investment will also be used to facilitate liquidity for employees.

SAN FRANCISCO – July 13, 2010 – MuleSoft, the Web Middleware Company, today announced the availability of Tcat Server 6 R3, the latest release of its enterprise-class web application server based on Apache Tomcat. This version adds support for managing the newly released Tomcat 7 beta and is tightly integrated with Windows services, allowing Windows administrators to run and manage Tomcat without being logged into the server. Other new features and capabilities include import and export of third party server profiles, streamlined user interaction, simplified diagnostics data, and faster and easier deployment of Tomcat applications.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2010 — ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training, today announced a series of extensions for its Mingle® project management platform. The new integrations will help organizations synchronize data within distributed teams onto a common Agile development platform, resulting in better collaboration and visibility among business stakeholders, project managers, development, QA and technical support teams.

BALTIMORE, MD – July 13, 2010 - Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced the release of Metastorm M3 – a cloud-enabled collaborative modeling suite.

Rockville, MD, July 7, 2010 — Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), a leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announces the availability of SilkPerformer CloudBurst, a peak demand load testing capability based on Micro Focus Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) technology. CloudBurst extends Micro Focus’ industry-leading load and performance testing solution SilkPerformer out to the cloud. With CloudBurst, SilkPerformer enables testing organizations to easily manage large load tests that emulate hundreds of thousands of users from multiple global points of presence and to quickly diagnose and resolve discovered issues.

WALTHAM, MA, JULY 14, 2010 – Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, today unveiled details of its Q2 2010 milestone release. Fresh from its recent “Best of TechEd Award” win, the company launched its latest developer productivity product, and new tools and controls. The company also announced the immediate availability of an array of upgrades and enhancements for the full Telerik product line.

BOULDER, Colo., July 14, 2010 - Rally®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM), has acquired Rally for the iPhone® from Blue Hole Software. Previously a $15 app called ScrumAway, Rally today announces that Rally for the iPhone has been relaunched as a free application that offers anytime, anywhere access to the real-time status, progress and quality of Agile development projects. Rally for the iPhone connects to Rally's award-winning ALM platform to help project teams efficiently plan, update and track software releases that propel business innovation. The acquisition extends Rally's integration footprint to include mobile access, allowing users to view and edit status flowing directly from any of Rally's Agile lifecycle management platforms - Unlimited, Enterprise or Community Edition. Rally for the iPhone is available immediately as a free download in Apple's App Store.

Apache CouchDB is a free and open source document-oriented database written in Erlang. It is a NoSQL solution designed for local replication and to scale vertically along a wide range of devices. They've been releasing various increments, but finally, they have their 1.0 release out and ready to go.

BRISBANE, Calif., July 8, 2010 — CollabNet®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (Agile ALM) in the Cloud, today announced the general availability release of ScrumWorks® Pro 4.4. The new version of the popular project and program management software is fully integrated with the CollabNet TeamForge™ ALM platform, creating an end-to-end Agile ALM platform for distributed software development. ScrumWorks Pro artifacts, such as sprints, backlog items, tasks, releases, and themes, can now be linked with source code, wiki entries, email messages, bugs, and other artifacts in the CollabNet TeamForge platform. Users of each product can view and modify scrum assets in the other, enhancing team-wide collaboration, and TeamForge’s tracing and advanced search capabilities are now available to both products. More information about CollabNet’s software products is available at www.collab.net.

Automation Anywhere (www.AutomationAnywhere.com), a global leader in automation software, today announced the newest version of Testing Anywhere. Testing Anywhere first launched in December, 2009 and is being adopted by large system integrators and other software development teams looking for significantly better efficiencies and quality around automated software testing.