We’re continuing to see signs that the dominant GPL open source license may be fading from favor among commercial open source software players. The latest move away from the GPL comes from content management software vendor Alfresco, which is moving to the LGPL after originally releasing its code...
The Ones That Shouldn't Surprise YouThere are a lot of innovative companies in the social computing, content management and overall IT space. CIO has consulted with analyst first MWD Advisors on which ones they think CIOs should be keeping an eye on. The results are not really surprising. Here are...
Alfresco Software at Lotusphere formally unveiled middleware for integrating its ECM software with an array of Lotus collaboration software offerings from IBM.While IBM already has higher-end ECM offerings in its portfolio in the form of FileNet, Lotus customers typically need an ECM offering that...
Alfresco Wednesday said it would ship this spring software to integrate its content management software with the lineup of IBM Lotus software, notably Lotus Quickr.
The company said it would unveil Alfresco Content Services for Lotus social collaboration software next week at IBM's annual...
Open source vendor Alfresco Software is rolling its enterprise content management (ECM) system into IBM's Lotus collaboration products to serve as a stronger counterpoint to Microsoft Sharepoint and reach smaller-sized business customers.The company is also teaming with RightScale's software-as-a-...
Alfresco Software announced a new version of its Enterprise Edition enterprise content management product. New features in version 3.2 include support for cloud-based deployments, improved email management and archiving, and enhanced team-based content collaboration.The London-based company was...
Alfresco Wednesday said it would ship software this spring to integrate its content management software with the lineup of IBM Lotus software, notably Lotus Quickr. The company said it would unveil Alfresco Content Services for Lotus social collaboration software next week at IBM's annual...
Alfresco (www.alfresco.com) is already well known to open-source types and has the giants of the enterprise content management space coming over all defensive. It already has a large user base and converting that mindshare into real money is the challenge for 2010, assuming it doesn't get picked...
Companies use the term "cloud computing" a lot these days. Too much, really. The term is hyped to no end.So it is encouraging to see a real example of cloud computing from Alfresco Software.Alfresco is teaming with Right Scale to offer a service that allows users to scale up and down their use of...
Alfresco Chief Marketing Officer Ian Howells is talking up a new cloud relationship with RightScale. But that’s not all. More than 1,000 customers now pay for Alfresco’s open source content management system. Next, Howells expects a winner-take-all scenario in the open source market. Should VARs...