CHICAGO, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenMake Software, the leaders in build and release technology, today announced a special program for customers of Serena Builder and Serena Builder Enterprise. Serena customers now have the choice to move their Builder support and maintenance from Serena Software to OpenMake Software providing them immediate access to the latest version of OpenMake Meister.

The last release of Serena Builder, version 6.41, is now over 3 years. Serena Builder was written on top of the OpenMake Meister technology which allows it to be easily upgraded to the latest release of OpenMake Meister 7.2.

"Moving to OpenMake Meister 7.2 will provide the Serena Builder customers with many new features and enhancements," states Stephen King , CEO OpenMake Software. "The most important of these features include Meister's improved continuous integration server, its ability to perform build mash ups that synchronize IDE builds with the Continuous Integration builds and support for Microsoft Team Build and Visual Studio 2008."

"OpenMake Software and Serena Software will work together to support interoperability between Serena Builder and OpenMake Meister", explains Steven Mitzenmacher , Vice President of Corporate Development, Serena Software.

To find out more about the program details, go to http://www.openmakesoftware.com/serena-builder/

Meister 7.2 can be downloaded from http://www.openmakesoftware.com/download/

 About OpenMake Software
OpenMake Software has been an innovator of build and release management solutions for global 2000 organizations since 1995. By managing more build engines, such as MSBuild and Ant, OpenMake Software represents the natural virtualization of the application build process derived directly from popular IDEs such as Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse. Putting workflow on top of chaos does not solve the build problems. OpenMake Software provides free workflow management with Mojo, but addresses the entire build management challenge with Meister.

About Serena Software, Inc.
Serena is a privately owned company, headquartered in Redwood City, California, with 29 offices in 14 countries and more than 800 employees. Serena provides software on premise and on demand to over 15,000 customers including 96 of the Fortune 100. Serena enables teams of programmers to become more efficient by standardizing and automating development processes across both mainframe and distributed environments. Serena enables IT business analysts and power users to improve productivity with a new generation of Web 2.0 tools to build Business Mashups. Business Mashups automate common everyday processes; are visual; and do not require coding. Serena also enables IT executives to gain visibility into their projects, resources and costs - CIO's should have access to the same quality of information about IT as the CFO has about Finance. For more information on Serena, visit http://www.serena.com.