March 2, 2010, New York, NY- CAST, the leader in software analysis and measurement, unveils cutting-edge capabilities in automated function point counting . While function points are the de facto industry standard for measuring the amount of functionality contained in a software application, they are time-consuming to measure, rely on detailed and up-to-date documentation and require function point specialists. CAST’s automated function point counting capabilities enable companies to avoid these problems. CAST’s function point counts are fast, objective, repeatable, tamper-proof, cost effective and benchmarkable.

March 2, 2010 – Boulder, CO – Confio Software today announced that Ignite 8, a major expansion of its award winning database performance solution, is now available. Ignite 8 expands the Ignite™ for SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and Sybase products to include comprehensive performance monitoring in combination with the response-time analysis for which Ignite has been known.

We believe in unit testing and test driven development, and we also know how hard it is to learn to write proper unit tests that are readable, maintainable and trustworthy. That’s why we created Test Lint – the world’s first and only coding advisor for unit tests in Visual Studio 2010.

San Francisco—March 9, 2010—Terracotta, a recognized leader in infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability, today announced the availability of Ehcache 2.0 as well as upgrades to its Web sessions clustering product. Ehcache 2.0, an open source product, and the world’s most popular caching solution, now delivers the enterprise-class capabilities of high priced and proprietary technologies like Oracle Coherence without requiring application changes. This release brings instant scale to the majority of Java applications, since they already use Ehcache or Hibernate today.

ATLANTA - March 8, 2010 - VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile management tools, today announced the availability of VersionOne Ultimate Edition -- a comprehensive agile lifecycle management platform for scaling agile organizations. The Ultimate Edition builds on VersionOne's proven agile development platform and delivers an organizational solution that includes new Agile Analytics, Test Management and Ideas Management capabilities. The Ultimate Edition provides the only integrated, out-of-the-box agile management platform where all stakeholders - customers, managers, product owners, executives, developers, testers and analysts - can easily work together in a single, centralized environment.

Cincinnati, OH – March 2, 2010 – Seapine Software, a leading global provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced today that its upcoming TestTrack 2010.1 product release includes a number of new capabilities to support Agile development. Key features enable development teams to better collaborate, improve productivity, shorten release cycles, and deliver higher-quality software products.

Ottawa, Canada - March 8, 2010 - The Eclipse Foundation today announced new initiatives to support the ongoing growth of the Eclipse Mylyn ecosystem. The open source Mylyn project is a widely extended framework for integrating task and application lifecycle management (ALM) tools with the Eclipse IDE. The project will create new sub-projects representing key IDE/ALM integration categories. New projects include: the "Tasks" project for integrating task and change management; "SCM" for integrating source code management; "Build" for integrating build management and continuous integration; and "Review" for collaborative code review. The new sub-project leadership will support a broader range of leading Agile vendors contributing to the ongoing evolution of Mylyn.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – March 8, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, announced today the release of its flagship product, Appcelerator Titanium™ 1.0, for General Availability ("GA").  Titanium 1.0 has been redesigned to achieve performance on par with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android SDKs, and is the first cross-platform solution to achieve this milestone.  Appcelerator also introduced a new commercial offering for premium support, training, and analytics, available for purchase beginning today.

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – March 1, 2010 – TechExcel, Inc., a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management software, today announced the release of Agile Studio, a new Agile Development platform that empowers organizations to mix elements from multiple Agile and traditional development methods. With Agile Studio, organizations can now balance both Agile and non-Agile practices to best support their processes and priorities, while still retaining the benefits of a single integrated system across the entire enterprise.

SAN FRANCISCO and BANGALORE, March 1, 2010 ­ ThoughtWorks Studios, (www.thoughtworks-studios.com) a global leader in Agile ALM and training, today announced the latest version of its Agile test automation solutions, Twist® 2.0. Designed to manage the rapid pace of software testing within Agile environments, Twist 2.0 helps testers, developers and business analysts work together to ensure testing is highly efficient and collaborative, resulting in faster release cycles of quality applications.