Alfresco Content Management Community Edition

Reading Oliver Diedrich’s recent article I have to agree that on the surface the hype surrounding open source appears to be over. However, far from seeing his conclusions as negative, I see much to commend the continued growth and use of commercial open source. But is the hype really over? Well if by hype we mean [...] Read More

Assuming the rumors are true, VMware’s acquisition of the SUSE Linux business from Novell further demonstrates the inevitable march of open source throughout the enterprise IT infrastructure.  With acquisitions of SpringSource, Zimbra and now ... [More] , possibly, SUSE, VMware is beginning to look a lot more like Red Hat than the other way around. I’ve watched VMware from [...] Read More [Less]

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For this post I want to share another policy from recent request from a customer.  The project was to help them develop a way to have usage quotas set to a default value when a new user/person was added to Alfresco. (There is an important distinction between the two.)  A few months ago I had a discussion [...] Read More

Accenture recently released a survey revealing investment in open source software (OSS) is set to rise in the next 12 months – no surprise to many of us, but interestingly they report that quality has overtaken cost as a primary adoption driver. This reflects Alfresco’s experience, where the value of OSS for organizations is no [...] Read More

The companies below have been picked for their innovation and creativity over the past year in areas as diverse as flirting services, games and music recognition. We list the top 10 and then all others alphabetically by sector. Read full article >> Read More

I’ve just finished reading Alfresco 3 Web Services, by Ugo Cei and Piergiorgio Lucidi, which Packt sent me to read and comment on. Alfresco 3 Web Services is meant for developers with a very specific focus: Remotely talking to Alfresco. That might ... [More] mean communicating via SOAP-based Web Services, RESTful web services (Web Scripts), or either [...] Read More [Less]

We have just merged the Web Quick Start (QS) files to HEAD in preparation for the 3.4 Community release at the end of September. Once complete, the QS will have its own installers and documentation, however I thought I would provide a quick overview of some of the features that the QS provides for those [...] Read More

We have just merged the WCM Quick Start (QS) files to HEAD in preparation for the 3.4 Community release at the end of September. Once complete, the QS will have its own installers and documentation, however I thought I would provide a quick overview of some of the features that the QS provides for those [...] Read More

And almost 18 months after Surf-ing in Munich’s snow, but this time as a presenter, and in the quite warmer venue of Cagliari, I was lucky enough to be invited by Max to speak at the Spring Framework meeting last weekend.I just published the slides ... [More] about my talk “Spring Surf and OpenCMIS, the dynamic duo”, while, considering my agenda of the next weeks/months, I guess it’ll take a [...] Read More [Less]