A New PartnershipAlfresco's open source ECM, in use by the likes of FedEx, Fox and Virgin Mobile, already has a Microsoft SharePoint protocol and CMIS support, for a wider choice of operating system, database, application server and desktop environment.
Alfresco Software, Inc., a provider of open source enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, and EnterpriseDB Corporation, an open source database company, announced a partnership under which Alfresco will support Alfresco Enterprise for use with EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus and EnterpriseDB’s...
"Leeches" -- that's how Dave Rosenberg, co-founder and former CEO of MuleSource, and now part of the founding team of RiverMuse, refers to companies that use open source technology but don't give back to the open source community. Companies like Cisco's Linksys subsidiary, whose routers rely on...
MANY technology firms are floundering amid the recession. But many of the ones that offer services tied to open-source software—free programs written by volunteers who collaborate online—are boasting double-digit growth. Sales at Red Hat, the world’s biggest independent open-source firm with annual...
We're often asked why there are so few ECM open source options, when at the same time the Web CMS marketplace supports so many open source alternatives? In the Web CMS world, there are easily 20+ open source CMS options. We cover 10 of the most significant in our Web Content Management research....
In our February article entitled Under the Covers: Alfresco's SharePoint Services (WSS) Killer we looked at Alfresco's (news, site) take on providing basic document and collaboration services for free. Alfresco's project is called Alfresco Share.When we posited that Alfresco Share was after...
The paperless office may still be a pipe dream, but insurance giant Allianz has freed up prime CBD office space by replacing paper-based processes with the Alfresco open source enterprise content management system.Tim Rynne, office automation manager at Allianz Australia Insurance, said although it...
While poring over reaction to Vignette’s acquisition by Open Text, there was one dog that did not bark.There was no gloating from the enterprise open source folks.Why? Probably because the enterprise open source business, especially the content management end, has problems of its own:Vendors are...
My first thought when I saw that OpenText is buying Vignette, one of the oldest providers of content and portal management software, for $310 million, was what a huge player Vignette was as the commercial web ramped up. It was founded in 1995, when all businesses were suddenly forced to build...
Matt Asay, VP of Business Development for Alfresco (news, site) opened the CMSExpo with the message that open source is now mainstream and being embraced by the enterprise.It is the right message at the right time. Open source companies like Alfresco are thriving in an otherwise difficult time....
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