Press Release

Mingle From ThoughtWorks Studios to Be the First Commercial Software in JRuby

SAN FRANCISCO—May 8, 2007— ThoughtWorks Studios, the specialist product group of global IT consulting firm ThoughtWorks, announced today that Mingle, its new Agile project management application, will be the first commercial application to run on JRuby.

"This is a big day for JRuby," said Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s Charles Oliver Nutter at Sun's CommunityOne conference in San Francisco. "ThoughtWorks is one of the most respected names in the Ruby world, and we're proud that they've chosen JRuby as their enterprise deployment solution." Nutter is a core developer on the open source JRuby project..

Mingle is a software application that helps teams manage Agile IT projects. It supports software delivery by providing entire teams a single place to share all project output, using a framework based on over ten years of ThoughtWorks' Agile experience. Mingle provides project intelligence by enabling real-time decisions driven by Agile metrics collected from everyday activities. Further product information can be found at [studios.thoughtworks.com]

"Mingle is built on the Ruby on Rails web framework," said Cyndi Mitchell, vice-president of strategy for ThoughtWorks Studios. "Rails allowed our development team to be immensely productive, but the Ruby platform still presents some deployment challenges to a typical enterprise. We needed an approach that would allow Mingle to fit right into our customers' existing IT landscape. JRuby gives us that."

JRuby is a pure Java, open-source implementation of the Ruby language. Two of its core developers, Nutter and Thomas Enebo, were hired last year by Sun Microsystems to work full time on JRuby.

Because Mingle is engineered in JRuby, it can easily be deployed into large, complex, and controlled corporate IT environments. For companies that have invested in the Java platform, supporting Mingle will not require investment in additional platforms and tools.

"If we hadn't chosen Ruby on Rails, Mingle would not be as flexible, as elegant, or as natural for Agile project teams to use. The leap forward with JRuby means that Mingle users can reap the benefits of Ruby and Rails while continuing to leverage their existing investments in the Java platform," said Mitchell.

Mingle is currently in Beta testing. Release 1 will be available for download and purchase in June 2007.

About ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks, Inc. is a transnational IT professional services firm providing application development and systems integration services to Global 1000 companies. The company's leadership in the practical application of Agile methods on enterprise class projects allows its people to deliver higher quality solutions more quickly and cost effectively, while giving client business leaders greater program and project control. ThoughtWorks' web site is [www.thoughtworks.com] ThoughtWorks Studios is the product development group within ThoughtWorks. Its website can be found at [studios.thoughtworks.com]

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