Tasktop

Vancouver, Canada November 12, 2008 -- Tasktop Technologies, the company behind the popular Eclipse Mylyn open source task management software, announced the general availability of the Tasktop Pro Autumn 2008 release today. In this release, Tasktop, the leading task-focused interface and integrated desktop client for software project tracking, is now available for Linux in addition to Microsoft Windows. Tasktop now also includes support for Firefox as an alternative to the built-in Internet Explorer-based browser, expanding the reach of Tasktop to many more software developers and project managers.

Mik Kersten, the creator of Mylyn and CEO of Tasktop Technologies, recently delivered a keynote address about the task-focused interface technology behind Tasktop at the prestigious W-JAX Conference in Munich, Germany. In the keynote, Kersten explained how Tasktop automatically tracks and displays the "context" of information related to a task, resulting in the biggest productivity gains since code completion. Kersten said, "In this economic environment, it's all about doing more with less by delivering time saving tool support for developers and project managers."

Tasktop is a commercial product built on the open source Eclipse Mylyn project, which has recently exceeded one million downloads in just one month via Eclipse distributions. Tasktop provides integrated desktop access to popular team bug and issue tracking systems such as JIRA, CollabNet, Rally and Bugzilla. As you work on bugs and issues, Tasktop tracks and shows only the relevant code, documents and web pages. This dramatically reduces time spent searching and scrolling while enabling one-click multitasking and automatic time tracking.

Kersten said, "Tasktop Pro eliminates time wasted searching and re-searching for the relevant code, documents, and web pages. Thanks to the task-focused interface, developers see only the code relevant to the task at hand. Multitasking becomes a one-click operation, dramatically reducing the overhead of working on complex systems. With the Autumn 2008 release of Tasktop Pro, many more developers can boost their output, whether they prefer Windows or Linux, Firefox or Internet Explorer. Integration with Tasktop partner's solutions, including SpringSource, JIRA, CollabNet and Rally, ensures that developers have instant access to their Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools from within their IDE."

The Tasktop Pro Autumn 2008 release is available for download now for $99.00 from the company website at http://www.tasktop.com. A free 30-day trial is also available for developers and project managers looking to try the latest task-focused interface technology.

About Tasktop Technologies

Tasktop Technologies created the revolutionary task-focused interface and the popular Eclipse Mylyn tool currently used by hundreds of thousands of programmers. The Tasktop line of products extends the productivity benefits of Mylyn to a developer's entire workday and makes the task-focused interface available to software project managers and other information workers. Tasktop Technologies also offers training and consulting services to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools.

Tasktop and Tasktop Pro are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Tasktop Technologies Inc. in Canada, the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

For more information from Tasktop Technologies

Wesley Coelho
Tasktop Technologies
Telephone Tel: +1 778 588-6896
info @ tasktop.com