The new PureCM 2008-2 release is a next step to minimise training and administration time needed to use an SCM tool. With completely redesigned Eclipse and Visual Studio plugins, working with PureCM has become easier again.

AUSTIN, Texas — July 21, 2008 — Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced that it has completed its $5 million Series A financing, led by S3 Ventures, a Texas-based venture capital firm. Previous investors, including DFJ Mercury, also participated in the financing. The capital will be used by Phurnace to expand sales, marketing and development activities for its patent-pending deployment automation products.

WALTHAM, Mass., July 21, 2008—Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced a substantial expansion to the volume of open source software managed in the Koders.com code search engine. Koders.com now contains 15 percent more code through the addition of C and C++ code governed by open source and other licenses. The addition will enhance Koders’ position as the search engine of choice for developers looking for reusable open source code, methods, examples and algorithms.

Graz, Austria, July 9, 2008 -- Ranorex® GmbH, a leading global provider of automated software testing solutions, today announced the release of Ranorex V1.5, the newest version of its flagship software testing application. Leading the additions in Ranorex V1.5 is Ranorex Studio, a complete test development environment that brings all Ranorex features together, allowing the user to create and maintain professional test automation projects through a single, easy-to-use interface.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — July 7, 2008 — Serena Software, the company recognized as a leader in Gartner, Inc.'s January 2008 Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management, has launched a new Business Mashup designed specifically for the application release process. This is the first Business Mashup to solve the classic problem associated with traditional application release – it provides an automated way for application developers, IT operations, and business users to communicate and collaborate with each other during the release process. Now, with Serena® Application Release Manager (ARM), there is closed-loop coordination between all the stakeholders to ensure that more applications are released on schedule and with no surprises.

6/30/2008 - CRANSTON, RI - McCabe Software announced today that they have acquired substantially all of the assets of Mountain View, CA based Agitar Software, Inc., makers of award-winning software test automation solutions. McCabe’s and Agitar’s tools are used by sophisticated developers and testers at Fortune 500 companies, and by leading defense, aerospace, and technology companies around the globe.

SAN FRANCISCO - July 15, 2008 - Embarcadero Technologies is releasing Embarcadero® DB OptimizerTM, a new tool that allows developers and database administrators to maximize database performance by detecting and reconciling SQL coding issues. DB Optimizer enables quick discovery, diagnosis and optimization of poor-performing SQL, eliminating performance bottlenecks and improving the operation of production databases and applications.

Austin, Texas - Jul 14, 2008 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL, www.borland.com), the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today introduced Borland Management Solutions (BMS), a software delivery management platform that will enable customers to better track, measure, predict and improve the performance of their software delivery organizations. Leveraging the Borland Open ALM Framework, BMS plugs into a customer’s existing ALM tooling infrastructure, providing an ALM management "cockpit" that gives unprecedented visibility and control over the entire application lifecycle.

BEVERLY, Mass., July 1, 2008 – Altova® ( http://www.altova.com ), creator of XMLSpy®, the industry leading XML editor, and other popular XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, recently announced the availability of Altova UModel Version 2008 Release 2 (v2008r2). In the latest update of UModel, several powerful new features have been added for visually designing application models in the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®), including support for the Object Management Group (OMG™) Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN™), a graphical notation for drawing business processes in a workflow, extended support for Java 6.0, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9.0, and Visual Studio 2008, as well as enhanced functionality for working UML diagrams, and more.

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