Mindjet Accelerates Software Licensing And Protection For Mindmanager With Microsoft's Service Platform

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - February 13, 2008 - Mindjet Corporation, a global leader in software for visualizing and using information, today announced that it has chosen the Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLP Services) platform to protect and license their MindManager product line. SLP Services is a new Microsoft product family allowing software publishers to protect, package, license, manage, and activate their software, while at the same time exploring new business models without changing their code.

"Mindjet was looking for a way to help protect its IP," said Thomas Lindeman, Director of Marketing for SLP Services at Microsoft Corp. "With SLP Services, we were able to offer Mindjet the latest .NET code protection and a platform for creating new business models through flexible and secure licensing. This helps Mindjet secure its IP and be highly Agile in its offerings to customers. Now, Mindjet can provide targeted offerings to its customers using a streamlined development cycle."

Applying Microsoft's SLP Services protects Mindjet's intellectual property from piracy while creating greater flexibility and speed in delivering business options and more seamlessly provide customer value. These services are particularly effective in providing enhanced license management and version control for the company's rapidly increasing enterprise customer base.

"We chose SLP Services to both protect our products and expand our market opportunities," said Richard Barber, VP of Engineering at Mindjet. "It will give us the advantage of strong protection and packaging flexibility without going back to our development team for quick responses to changing market or customer requests."