Mergere Maestro Offers Open Source Platform for Real-Time Software Engineering; Mergere Maestro Distribution Integrates Apache Maven and Continuum to Deliver Build Automation, Development Agility and Increased Productivity to Enterprise IT

Business Wire, May 15, 2006

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- Mergere, Inc., an open source software life-cycle management company, today announced the launch and availability of Mergere Maestro, an open source software engineering platform that provides automated integration, testing, packaging and reporting capabilities, as well as comprehensive project taxonomy for complex, hybrid development projects. Mergere Maestro is a lightweight, instantly-deployable open source distribution based on Apache Maven and Apache Continuum. Delivered with the CoRE (Community-oriented Real-time Engineering) Network, a subscription-based, hosted service for production and developer-level support and maintenance, Maestro enables automation for developer tasks, real-time project transparency and optimized code reuse to increase both the velocity and quality of product releases.

By making the technology framework that underpins open source development available to enterprise application development projects, Maestro addresses the specific requirements of today's complex, heterogeneous and component-based software engineering environments, including the growing adoption of SOA-based development models. Mergere Maestro gives IT groups the ability to effectively coordinate project teams and activities, quickly analyze a project's health and bring reproducibility and improved quality to a release.

Mergere Maestro features:

--Maestro Developer Client: Declarative build automation based on a unified Project Object Model (POM) architecture and extensible life-cycle plugin framework for re-usability across projects, as well as a build taxonomy to track and manage transitive dependencies across projects.

--Maestro Project Server: Continuous integration for scheduled or trigger-based builds, unit tests and integration tests of code across projects. Built-in error notification and project site publication offers extensive, automatically-generated project documentation and reports as part of the build life cycle for real-time code coverage and developer activity statistics.

--Mergere CoRE Repository: Access to a hosted library of open source artifacts.

"Timely, quality software development has become mission-critical to businesses, because it is now the gating factor in a product's time-to-market. However, software life-cycle management must become more agile and dynamic to support the new challenges in today's distributed, complex and highly-interdependent developer environment," said Winston Damarillo, executive chairman of Mergere. "With 19 percent of Java developers already relying on them, Maven and Continuum are proven open source technologies to quickly and reliably build, test and release code. Now, Mergere Maestro provides an enterprise-ready software engineering platform based on the same technology that enables the rapid innovation behind open source."

Pricing and Availability

Mergere Maestro is available for download directly from the Mergere Web site at http://www.mergere.com for customers in production and/or pre-production environments. Mergere Maestro is offered, without any up-front licensing fees, to enterprises through Mergere's CoRE Network, a unique, subscription-based support and maintenance model that securely hosts source code repositories, issue tracking systems, mailing lists and Wiki sites to deliver Developer, Basic and Premium SLAs.

For further information about pricing, training, incident-based support and subscription options, please visit http://www.mergere.com.

About Mergere

Mergere, Inc., a Simula Labs company, provides a build management platform based on the leading, open source-based build platform, Apache Software Foundation's Maven and Continuum projects, as well as training, services and support. Mergere offers developers, release engineers, testers, IT and non-IT managers automation, comprehension and best practices to build and manage any Java-based project, ensuring faster time to market and a higher quality product, predictably and securely. Mergere is based in Marina del Rey, Calif. For further information about Mergere, please visit http://www.mergere.com.