Talk:ETouch Systems
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Dear Truthbringer and other editors,
I have revised the content to be factual and objective by removing buzzwords and using simple English. Please review and comment. Thank you.
Jay Mejia
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This article was nominated for deletion on October 17, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep. |
Dear Truthbringer,
I have revised the eTouch article to emphasize notability as requested. Below is the copy and also current Wikipedia entries for companies that have a similar offering. Please clarify why these articles are notable and mine is not. I cannot determine the difference.
eTouch Systems is a Fremont, Calif., software company that has developed proprietary social computing technologies including an enterprise wiki solution built on a J2EE platform called SamePage. Founded in 1998, eTouch has developed collaboration software powered by a comprehensive Content Management solution. Customers include Cisco, Kaplan, Johnson & Johnson, and NASA.
As the prime contractor for NASA, eTouch led the effort to help the space agency consolidate its 3,000 web sites into a more manageable, single public web portal to inspire the next generation of space explorers. Built on eTouch’s CMS product, NASA’s public portal delivers up-to-the-minute, engaging multimedia coverage of NASA’s wide variety of programs, including dazzling photos and streaming media content from the Mars Rovers mission, the Cassini flyby and the ongoing space shuttle missions. eTouch’s partnerships with Akamai Technologies and Yahoo! ensures that the content can be delivered to anyone on earth and downloaded on the Internet in less than two seconds without interruption or failure.
Since the launch of the Mars Rover missions, NASA’s web traffic has skyrocketed to 50 Gigabytes during special space events, such as the Return to Flight shuttle mission in July 2005 and the Atlantis space shuttle mission to resume construction of the International Space Station in September of 2006. Peak traffic of 50 Gigabytes is equal to all the words in all the books that would fill the U.S. Library of Congress 63 times.
eTouch has leveraged its experience with organizations like NASA to build out an enterprise-class wiki with a blog publishing tool. eTouch SamePage provides a number of advanced features, including WYSIWYG editing, project management, permissioning, administration and support for multiple domains.
Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software, including a software platform by the same name. It is run by CEO Ross Mayfield and CTO Peter Kaminski. It counts the Omidyar Network and Draper Fisher Jurvetson among its investors. The company's board of directors includes Jimmy Wales, Joi Ito, and Tim Draper. Other company founders are Adina Levin and Edward Vielmetti.
Socialtext is an enterprise wiki and weblog based on Kwiki. It is available as a hosted service (from Socialtext Incorporated), as a hardware appliance, and now as Open Source.
Socialtext was a sponsor of Wikimania 2005 and 2006. It also donated US$2,000 in the Wikimedia Fundraiser 2005 Q4.
JotSpot is the first application wiki company that offers enterprise social software. The product is targeted mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. The company was founded by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer, co-founders of Excite.
Business customers of JotSpot include Whole Foods, eBay, Symantec, and Intel[1].
JotSpot's wiki is known for its easy to user interface and features such as the ability to send email to each page in the wiki, WYSIWYG editing, and embedded spreadsheet capabilities.
Beyond its basic wiki product, JotSpot also offers other applications including JotSpot Family Site,Class Reunion Planner, JotSpot Live, JotSpot Tracker and more.
In February 2006, JotSpot was named part of Business 2.0 Next Net 25 and in May 2006, it was honored as one of InfoWorld's 15 Start-ups to Wat
Atlassian Confluence is a commercial Java EE based knowledge management and collaboration tool produced by Atlassian Software Systems. It is a wiki, and can be used as a bliki.
Confluence is free for philanthropic and open-source projects. Academic and commercial organizations are charged based on number of users.
Some other nice features of Confluence are that it is extensible, and the source code is made available to purchasers. Confluence uses Java EE for the server side and has the ability to connect to virtually any SQL database, utilizing the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver. Formatting of the XHTML front end is done with another open-source software project, Velocity. Velocity is part of the Jakarta project (which was founded by the Apache Software Foundation, most famous for the Apache Web server and the Tomcat Application Server.
Other open-source components used include:
OpenSympony WebWork OpenSympony SiteMesh Hibernate Lucene Confluence also includes a plugin system with a variety of extension points ranging from theming capabilities and wiki macros to custom webwork actions, search extractors and event handlers. This makes Confluence a strong platform for rapid development and modification.
[edit] Deletion
Your article was deleted by another editor as a copyright violation (in other words, it reproduced text from another web site, such as the company's own site) and as spam. For the article to be kept, the topic must be notable (which it seems to be), AND the article needs to be supported by verifiable, reliable independent sources -- typically articles from printed newspapers or magazines, AND it needs to be written in a neutral point of view. If you can fulfill all these requirements, then go ahead and recreate the article. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 17:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
