SpikeSource's SuiteTwo Powered by Intel Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software

Business Wire, Nov 13, 2007

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- SpikeSource, a provider of packaged and maintained open source solutions, today announced that its flagship application SuiteTwo, the Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration Suite powered by Intel, has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the visionaries quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007"1 report.

"We believe SuiteTwo's position in the visionaries quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant is a huge testimonial to the power of open source collaboration and packaged solutions to drive new market opportunities, like Web 2.0," said Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource. "SpikeSource has taken strides to develop a user-friendly interface for all types of Web 2.0 applications. SuiteTwo allows enterprise users the ease of deployment and management, affordable cost and reliable support that they require for adoption throughout the organization."

SocialText, a SpikeSource partner and part of the SuiteTwo solution, was also named as one of the two visionaries in the report, with no overall leaders in the group. With Intel as a channel provider, SuiteTwo allows companies the maximum use of Web 2.0 capabilities. A product of collaboration between Intel, Six Apart (an Intel Capital portfolio company), SocialText, SimpleFeed, NewsGator and SpikeSource, SuiteTwo offers the convergence of complementary advanced applications of blogs, wikis, content aggregation, RSS feeds and search. SuiteTwo demonstrates a fundamental shift towards open, flexible and participatory models of integration between businesses on an open source platform.

"To remain the pre-emminent global events, sponsorship and promotion agency we have to continually improve the way we do business," said Kevin McNulty, chief marketing officer at Momentum Worldwide. "Our global clients simply expect the best and its incumbent upon us to create an environment where our 2000 employees across 73 offices can create efficiently and seamlessly. We believe that implementing SuiteTwo as the backbone of our global communication and collaboration platform will take us to the next level and truly set a standard for how companies like Momentum have to do business today."

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 24, 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About SpikeSource

SpikeSource is a software company which distributes, integrates, manages and supports open source applications to enterprises through trusted solution providers. SpikeSource integrates applications with the right components and then builds, tests and distributes these open source solutions on an automated test framework with more than 300,000 daily tests. By testing and certifying open source applications, SpikeSource offers a portfolio of SpikeCertified and SpikeIgnited solutions for enterprises that may not have deployed open source before. These solutions are delivered with a comprehensive update and support service called Spike[TM] Net. Through SpikeSource's trusted solution providers, companies can be assured that the applications have been deployed and customized for their unique business requirements. For a list of SpikeSource solution providers, visit www.spikesource.com.

1 Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Team Collaborations and Social Software, 2007" by Nikos Drakos. October 24, 2007