Gradle announces the release of Gradle 0.9. Gradle is a build system which offers you ease, power and freedom. You can choose the balance for yourself. It has powerful multi-project build support. It has a layer on top of Ivy that provides a build-by-convention integration for Ivy. It gives you always the choice between the flexibility of Ant and the convenience of a build-by-convention behavior.

PITTSFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QSM Associates today announced the immediate availability of SLIM Suite 8.0, the market-leading software lifecycle management solution from QSM, Inc. Featuring new capabilities --many of which are aimed at the burgeoning Agile software development market-- as well as enhanced integration with IBM's Rational Portfolio Manager, and updated project productivity trends information, SLIM 8.0 advances the state of the art in software management and planning. The SLIM interface, already designed to allow rapid, accurate ease-of-use, has also been streamlined and improved as a result of user feedback.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CloudBees, the innovation leader in Java Cloud computing, today announced it has acquired Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) pioneer Stax Networks. The acquisition will accelerate the delivery of CloudBees’ own Java PaaS, RUN@cloud, which complements the company’s DEV@cloud service. With the two offerings, CloudBees will be the first company to offer a fully integrated, development to production solution for the cloud environment.

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New version v6.00 of shareware tool Sprintometer Pro for SCRUM and XP management is released on December 12, 2010. Sprintometer is a simple but powerful agile tool for management and tracking of SCRUM and XP (Extreme Programming) projects.

We are happy to announce the availability of MercurialEclipse 1.7.1, the latest version of the Mercurial Distributed Version Control plugin for the Eclipse IDE.

Alameda, Calif., December 10, 2010—Perforce Software announced the availability of P4Ant, a new integration between its Software Configuration Management (SCM) system and Apache Ant, the popular Java-based build tool.

As in 2009, Sonar has received a Productivity Award at the Jolt Award 2010 in the Testing and Debugging category.

Silver Spring, MD - December 1, 2010 – Sonatype, the company that is transforming software development, today announced the launch of Sonatype Professional, an integrated development suite for Maven-centric Java development. Sonatype Professional integrates and enhances a range of popular open source technologies to streamline Java software development.

SAN FRANCISCO – Dreamforce 2010 – Dec. 7, 2010 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today expanded on its leadership position in Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) by announcing a new solution that enables organizations to bring the voice of the customer to the forefront of decision making about what to build and bring to market. The announcement was made today at Dreamforce 2010, the cloud computing event of the year.