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Evaluating Social Software? Don't Underestimate Open Source
Veröffentlicht 31 Mar 2009 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Acquisition, Alfresco, Analysis, Application Stategy, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Content Management, Django, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Groundswell, IT Strategy, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, social media, Social Networking, Solutions, Strategy, Twitter, Vendor Evaluation, WordPress

It's quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. + Read more

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Veröffentlicht 21 Dec 2008 von Optaros Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source + Read more

Alfresco 3.0 Enterprise now available
Veröffentlicht 31 Oct 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Content Management

Open source CMS Alfresco has made its Enterprise 3.0 release available today. This is a significant release. + Read more

Alfresco Developer Guide released
Veröffentlicht 29 Oct 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Content Management

I can finally answer the question, "When is the book coming out?". The answer: Today. The Alfresco Developer Guide is now available for immediate shipping from Packt's web site (also, download a free Bonus chapter of the Alfresco Developer Guide). + Read more

Alfresco Surf 3.0 Code Camp: Catch a wave in NYC
Veröffentlicht 28 Oct 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco

Optaros and Alfresco are co-hosting a Surf 3.0 Code Camp in New York City on November 10th. The purpose of the camp is to get attendees up-and-running with Alfresco's new web application development framework, Surf. + Read more

Rezession fördert Open-Source-Adoption
Veröffentlicht 15 Oct 2008 von Bruno von RotzTags: Alfresco, CIO, Drupal, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, IT Strategy, JBoss, Open Source, Sugar CRM

Die ganze Welt spricht über die Finanzkrise, Rezessionsängste werden geschürt, CIOs und CEOs bereiten sich auf den Geschäftsrückgang vor. Waren anfänglich nur Banken betreffen, ziehen die Probleme und Auswirkungen immer weitere Kreise. Die kritische Frage aber ist: Werden alle Industrien und Firmen betroffen sein und werden sie mit Kürzungen querbeet reagieren? Welche Rezepte und Vorgehensweisen können gerade in dieser Zeit helfen, sich gegenüber der Konkurrenz abzusetzen und erfolgreich neue Kunden zu gewinnen, respektive bestehende zu halten? + Read more

SUN T2000/T5000 and Alfresco - not a good combination
Veröffentlicht 01 Oct 2008 von Optaros Tags: Alfresco, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise solutions, Performance, Recommendations

A recent analysis reports that several Alfresco installations have had performance issues using SUN T2000 infrastructure environment. The conclusion and recommendation of this analysis is to use UltraSPARC Vx, Intel or AMD processors infrastructure instead. T2000 and T5000 are from the same family. The T2000 has been designed for being highly performant in the treatment of parallel tasks but its processor (UltraSPARC T1) is very slow, especially for treating sequential tasks. + Read more

Open source CMS vendor and others announce interoperability standard
Veröffentlicht 10 Sep 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Content Management

Dogs and Cats: EMC, Microsoft, IBM, & Alfresco release CMIS + Read more

Open Source CMS Alfresco Releases 3.0 Preview
Veröffentlicht 31 Jul 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Content Management, Knowledge Management

Alfresco has just announced the availability of the Alfresco Labs 3.0 Preview. If you've been regularly updating from HEAD there may not be a whole lot of stuff that's new to you but if you haven't, it might be a good time to see what the team in Maidenhead has been up to. + Read more

Optaros ‘open sources’ DoCASU 1.0, a RIA User Interface for Alfresco ECM
Veröffentlicht 15 Jul 2008 von Optaros Tags: Ajax, Alfresco, Content Management, DoCASU, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise solutions, Knowledge Management, Open Source, REST, User Experience, User-Centered Design, Web 2.0, Web Scripts

Open Source software has many advantages compared to proprietary alternatives. The fact that the source code is open might often not even be the most relevant benefit. The ability to access functions and componentized services through open APIs (application programming interfaces) allows to focus development efforts on what is most important for the usage of the application – the user interface – for example. + Read more

Optaros entwickelte Open-Source-RIA-Benutzerschnittstelle für Alfresco ECM
Veröffentlicht 15 Jul 2008 von Bruno von RotzTags: Ajax, Alfresco, DoCASU, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, JavaScript, Knowledge Management, RIA, Rich Internet Application, Web 2.0

Optaros hat heute die Publikation von DoCASU 1.0, einer Benutzer-schnittstelle für Alfresco-ECM-Implementierungen, als Open-Source-Projekt (GPL) bekanntgegeben. Das Projekt soll Alfresco-Nutzern benutzerspezifische Erweiterungen und die Assimilation der Lösung erleichtern. + Read more

Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco
Veröffentlicht 02 Jul 2008 von John EckmanTags: Alfresco, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Content Management, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Open Innovation, Open Source, Platform, Video, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference this June in Boston, I sat down with John Newton, the CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, for a brief (7:11) discussion about the intersections between ECM and Enterprise 2.0 and the value of community-driven innovation in open source. Newton lays out a very clear picture of how Alfresco has a role to play in the overall shift in the direction of Enterprise 2.0 knowledge worker applications through the notion of content services and social services: + Read more

Slides from the Open Source ECM event
Veröffentlicht 26 Jun 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Content Management, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Knowledge Management, Liferay, Open Source, Ringside Networks, Social Networking

I want to thank everyone for attending the Alfresco-hosted Open Source ECM event in Dallas this morning. In case you missed it, the slides I presented on "Assembling Enterprise 2.0 Solutions with Alfresco" are available at share.acrobat.com (which is built on Alfresco, BTW) and embedded below. + Read more

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel
Veröffentlicht 23 Jun 2008 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Alfresco, Application Stategy, Community, Conference, Content Management, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Java, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, Web 2.0

Stephen Powers of Forrester Research recently released a report identifying Alfresco and Drupal as the two open source content management platforms to which enterprises should pay the most attention. + Read more

Content Management in the Age of User Participation - Presentation
Veröffentlicht 20 Jun 2008 von John EckmanTags: Alfresco, Amateur, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, content syndication, Culture, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Knowledge Management, Media and Publishing, Next Generation CRM, Open, Open Source, Social Networking, Syndication, User Experience, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, WordPress

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to present at Web Content 2008 on user generated content and the impact it has on content management.The presentation is called "Tag, Upload, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of User Participaiton" - you can view it below, or download the PDF at slideshare.   + Read more