Alfresco’s new Open Source Barometer hit the Web on Tuesday. The second iteration of the company’s user survey on open source trends was three times larger than the first, covering 35,000 respondents.
The idea that Open Source users use only open source tools to evaluate and deploy open source solutions may not be entirely accurate -- if a recent study is any indicator.In its second annual Open Source Barometer study, open source content management vendor Alfresco found that hybrid uses of LAMP...
Red Hat has announced the winners of the JBoss Innovation Awards 2008. The Awards, in their second year, highlight the individuals and companies which are judged to be the most innovative and effective in providing JBoss solutions.JBoss, a division of Red Hat, provides open source middleware...
If you think we're entering a recession,you wouldn't know it from talking to Alfresco's CEO John Powell.To say Powell is upbeat about the three year-old company's future would be an understatement. And why not? They just received nine million more reasons($9 million Series B funding)that validates...
The last few years have seen a ton of movement in the open source software market. And the recent string of acquisitions are sure to shake up the business of content management.If you look at where the money's flowing, you'll find a lot of folks are betting on open source software that helps...
Alfresco Software is the latest player hoping to kill high-priced software for large companies.It’s one of a number of vendors of “content management” software. But it’s open source, and dirt cheap relative to others in the so-called enterprise content management (ECM) sector: Filenet (IBM),...
According to an IDC report, Open Source Software Business Models 2007-2011 Forecast: A Preliminary View, worldwide open source-related revenue reached $1.8 billion in 2006 and will grow to reach $5.8 billion by 2011. That's a forecasted 26% of compound annual growth for the next five years. That's...
We have to admit, Microsoft's SharePoint isn't a bad solution, but we want a collaboration platform that doesn't lock us into Windows. Lucky us, we have Alfresco to look to for a collaboration platform that's open source and just as slick. Alfresco's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is being...
Okay, so Alfresco did not “bench” as in “bench-press” 100 million objects (that feat is coming soon), but they did reach and exceed the 100 million document mark in an independently certified benchmark test of Alfresco Enterprise 2.1, conducted by Unisys Corporation. This is pretty darn impressive...
H&R Block wanted a flexible, easy- to-use document management system to capture clients' tax documents and move them digitally to its tax preparers' offices. It considered commercial products, such as FileNet and Documentum. But H&R Block CIO Marc West eventually directed the team to focus...
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