MindTouch, developers of the most popular open source collaboration platform, today announced it has won the 2009 Jolt Product Excellence Award in the Enterprise Tools category at the 2009 Software Development Conference & Expo West being held this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The Jolt Awards are referred to as the "Oscars" of software development industry.

"We're honored to have been selected as the 2009 Enterprise Tools Jolt Award winner. MindTouch has developed an innovative collaboration platform that is being used by many millions of smart people to reinvent business productivity. This award is further validation of the value MindTouch is delivering to our users," said Aaron Fulkerson, founder and CEO of MindTouch.

MindTouch was selected by a team of industry experts, visionaries and technology leaders as delivering market-leading customer solutions for productivity and enterprise collaboration. Specifically, MindTouch allows users to connect, remix and automate enterprise systems, social tools and web services with an easy to use wiki interface that dramatically increases productivity on an enterprise scale. MindTouch beat out products and platforms from Adobe Systems, OutSystems, Rally Software Development Corp, and Zenoss.

MindTouch offers a free open source software core and provides support, services and additional tools tailored for productivity enhancement.