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Wikipedia: Confluence (software)
Atlassian Confluence
Developer(s) Atlassian
Initial release 25 March 2004
Stable release 3.0 / 2009-06-01; 5 months ago
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Russian, Swedish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish [1]
Type Wiki
License Proprietary
Website http://atlassian.com/confluence

Confluence is a web-based corporate wiki written in Java and mainly used in corporate environments. It is developed and marketed by Atlassian Software Systems. Confluence is sold as either on-premise software or as a hosted solution. Its license is proprietary, but a zero-cost license program is available for non-profit organizations and open source projects.[2][3]

Confluence is used by over 7,800 organisations in more than 94 countries. Notable customers include Adobe Systems, Sun Microsystems, IBM, SAP, Bloomberg LP, Johns Hopkins University, United Nations and Weill Cornell Medical College.[4]

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History

Confluence 1.0 was released on March 25, 2004. The stated purpose of Confluence 1.0 was "to build an application that was built to the requirements of an enterprise knowledge management system, without losing the essential, powerful simplicity of the wiki in the process." [5]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Language+Pack+Translations/
  2. ^ See page on Community and Open Source licenses on official website.
  3. ^ Quoted in the wiki of the OpenSymphony project.
  4. ^ Atlassian - Software to Track, Test & Collaborate, from Enterprises to Open Source Projects.
  5. ^ TheServerSide.com, Java Community discussing server side development

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