TriSano(TM) Provides Open Source Surveillance and Outbreak Management
                    System Offered Under AGPLv3 License

    PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaborative Software
Initiative, the company that brings like-minded organizations together to
work collaboratively on software at a fraction of the cost, announces the
launch of TriSano(TM), a public health application and community.
TriSano(TM) is an open source, citizen-focused surveillance system for
infectious disease management. It is designed so that it can be expanded to
cover environmental hazards, bioterrorism, and outbreak management.
TriSano(TM) allows local, state and federal entities to track, control and
ultimately prevent illness and death. It also provides a forum where
Subject Matter Experts (i.e., epidemiologists, doctors, nurses, and health
informaticists) and software developers work together to create these
critically needed public health software applications.

    "Public health software has traditionally been built from the top down,
not from the bottom up," said Stuart Cohen, CEO, Collaborative Software
Initiative. "The TriSano(TM) project puts the power into the hands of the
people who are dealing with infectious disease, bio-terrorism and the
spread of air/water/food-borne illnesses -- all of which pose a significant
threat to the health of our country. They are the ones who have a real
stake in improving this process and with TriSano(TM) they now have
influence over how these life-saving applications are created."

    With TriSano(TM), subject matter experts in the public health community
collaborate on solutions that meet the requirements of their specific state
government and local health programs, fulfilling the promise of protecting
their citizens, while remaining compliant with mandates from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

    "TriSano(TM) addresses an urgent need of public health departments at
the local, state and federal levels to fight the spread of infectious
disease," said Dr. Robert Rolfs, MD, State Epidemiologist, State of Utah
Department of Health. "By hosting the TriSano(TM) open source project,
Collaborative Software Initiative is building an open source community that
has a shared interest in improving citizens' health by collecting and
managing data to better address infectious disease outbreaks and meet CDC
compliance requirements."

    "By offering the code under the widely-used AGPLv3 license,
Collaborative Software Initiative gives the user community the assurance of
knowing that the code can be modified, customized and shared in a
low-friction way to suit their very specific project requirements," said
Eben Moglen, Director of the Software Freedom Law Center and co-author of
the user-empowering license. "AGPLv3 was written as a roadmap to foster the
most open, transparent and collaborative open source and free software
communities possible. Collaborative Software Initiative's use of AGPLv3 for
TriSano(TM) is a perfect example of its value for businesses, governments,
and cutting-edge software developers."

    About Collaborative Software Initiative

    Collaborative Software Initiative was founded in 2007 by Stuart Cohen,
a veteran IT executive and former chief executive officer at the Open
Source Development Labs. Cohen has partnered with Evan Bauer, financial
services technology veteran and former chief technology officer at Credit
Suisse, to bring together like-minded companies to build software
applications at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. The company
introduces a market-changing process that applies open source methodologies
to building software collaboratively.

    Collaborative Software Initiative engages the power of community to
build project teams and provides the central project management function
for developing software, including development, testing and ongoing support
for the code. The company delivers the software to a broader base of
customers under the open source licensing or Software as a Service (SaaS)
models.



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