IBM (NYSE: IBM): It sells portal, collaboration, and content management software separately--and quite successfully. With FileNet and Content Manager, it has the largest content management market share, and WebSphere still tops the portal charts. IBM says Lotus' new social networking software and...
Alfresco has just announced the third incarnation of its Enterprise Content Management System. Alfresco Enterprise 3 is what Alfresco CTO John Newton refers to as the completion of the Product Suite that had been envisioned since the company began.
These days the team over at Alfresco have been...
Alfresco will ship this week a major upgrade of its enterprise content management system that features new collaboration services, a draft implementation of the CMIS spec and Microsoft SharePoint support.
Alfresco Enterprise 3.0, due for release on October 31, features Share, a collaborative...
Alfresco announced today that it was releasing Alfresco Enterprise 3, it's latest enterprise content management offering. The new release builds on earlier Alfresco announcements around the Sharepoint protocol support, draft CMIS support (which John Newton, Alfresco founder and CTO, discussed in...
The company's CEO expects open source software companies, because they're more open in product development, to be more appealing in the wake of the financial industry turmoil. John Powell, CEO of open source software company Alfresco, draws parallels between the business practices that have gotten...
When it comes to health care it always seems as though it and Linux have a strange relationship. Doctors tend to purchase software without any thought to cost or licensing. The generally leads them into a one-size-fits-all solution and they just deal with the shortcomings of the software or go and...
By John Newton, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Alfresco SoftwareSome enterprise executives may be sitting at their desk in their corner office thinking, "Social Software is what my kids are into when they waste time on Facebook and YouTube" - not an enterprise-weight technology."Over the...
Bentley: Why are open source companies uniquely poised to grow even when the economy is so tough?Asay: Several reasons. First, many open source companies, including Alfresco, SugarCRM, Red Hat, and others, deliver equal or better functionality than our proprietary competitors at a significantly...
UK businesses and government agencies are increasingly adopting open source technology solutions as the credit crunch takes hold, according to open source firm Alfresco Software.It was claimed to be a reversal of the trend seen during the second half of 2007, with companies looking for better value...
Caringo Inc., a vendor of content storage software, has recently announced the release of an interface that will allow Alfresco, a provider of open source content management software, and CAStor, Caringo’s flagship storage product, to operate seamlessly.
This interface replaces the existing file-...