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After six months of toil and sweat from the Confluence development team, the day has finally arrived. Confluence 3.1 is now generally available for download from atlassian.com. Thank you to all our beta testers and customers who contributed to the release.

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Atlassian announced this week the launch of Confluence 3.0, the newest generation of it's Java-based enterprise wiki. This latest version builds upon the product's strengths as a platform for enterprise collaboration and content generation, and adds new social features to improve content sharing and discovery.

Confluence now offers a new point-and-click editor that makes it easy for users to build content-rich wiki pages in just seconds. The release also includes several new social features, in… Continue

This week Atlassian is running a promotion - get a 5-user license of Confluence, our enterprise wiki, for only $5. (our lowest price is normally $1,200). This is not some "watered-down" version - It's a fully functional Confluence license, renewable annually for $5/year.

Why is Atlassian Doing This?
Atlassian wants to help small businesses, nimble teams and startups afford enterprise class software for… Continue

A recent blog post by Martin Seibert inspired me to write a blog post comparing SharePoint to an enterprise wiki like Confluence. I pose a few questions like Will SharePoint 14 have a better wiki? Will it matter? Check out my post on Atlassian's blog to learn more.

Everyone is invited to attend an Atlassian webinar on Thursday, Feb 12 at 9:00 AM PST. Peter Reiser from Sun Microsystems is going to demo SunSpace, Sun's Enterprise 2.0 community with over 21,000 users and 360 communities. Sun proclaims SunSpace to be the "most advanced Social Networking implementation in a large enterprise today" with features such as: myProfile, 'Value-Driven' Communities, and 'Intelligent Mashups'.

Folks can regi… Continue