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How good is open source support?: What is meant by the word support is often in the eye of the beholder. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Support, Alfresco, Open Source, Cable, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-07-16
SMARTi II (zip): Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost. SMARTi II has been integrated with Alfresco for...; Tags: FileMark, SMARTi II, Alfresco, Open Source; Software downloads 2008-07-11
Is the open source IPO a pipe dream?: Will Red Hat be the only major pure play open source company to go public? That's what observers are wondering as more and more open source stars are swallowed up by traditional proprietary giants, with Nokia's purchase of Trolltech – announced yesterday - and Sun's buy...; Tags: Novell Inc., Open-source Company, Red Hat Inc., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Liquidity, Zurlocker, Alfresco, Open Source, IPO, Databases, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-01-29
Alfresco takes Matt's advice: It should be no surprise that Alfresco has taken our own Matt Asay's advice and put money in the bank when it was offered. They're his day job after all. He claims in today's post to be unhappy over the dilution, but devotes most of...; Tags: SAP AG, Alfresco, Social Networking, Venture Capital, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-22
Benchmark Results: Scalability of Alfresco Content Management System in a Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Server Environment: Alfresco is the leading Open Source alternative for enterprise content management. It couples the innovation of Open Source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. The Open Source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed Open Source technologies and contributions from the Open Source community to get higher quality software...; Tags: Unisys Corp., Environment, Scalability, Alfresco, Open Source; White papers 2007-12-01

Are Zimbra and Alfresco on Red Hat's shopping list?: Are Zimbra and Alfresco on Red Hat's shopping list?Red Hat Will Ultimately Compete with MySQLYes, it's highly likely Red Hat will move into the application market. And ultimately, Red Hat could wind up competing with MySQL. Here's why: http://techiqmag.com/2007/03/27/- The VAR Guy, TechIQ; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Alfresco, Zimbra; Discussion threads 2007-05-11
Is Zimbra and Alfresco on Red Hat's shopping list?: Is Red Hat going to use its Red Hat Exchange to find acquisition targets? Its quite possible. And if thats the case Zimbra and potentially Alfresco will part of Red Hat at some point. That speculation is just one of...; Tags: General, Linux, Open Source, Red Hat, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology; Blog posts 2007-05-10
Open source makes development faster: Open source makes development fasterso fast that nothing is verifiedA CEO of a open source company doing his marketing rounds as usual says 'How wonderful his software is and wonderful he is that he got a working version in 10 months'. A journalist who doesnt code makes the headline 'OPEN...; Tags: operating system, Programming team, Alfresco, open source, team; Discussion threads 2006-08-18

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Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise: Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertiseCompanies making money from open source.Well, there's Red Hat... and there's Red Hat and, oh yes, I remember, Red Hat.There are ways to save expenses with open source, but that's different from making money with open source. If a company...; Tags: open source; Discussion threads 2008-06-17
Ingres brings OpenROAD tool for rapid DB apps development to GPL: Ingres Corp. is hoping for strong community involvement with its Open ROAD rapid application development RAD tool by taking it to GPL v2 release. The Redwood City, Calif., open source database management company has made the new release available on its Web site and said it...; Tags: GPL, Tool, Ingres, 4GL OpenROAD, OpenROAD Application, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-19
Frequent open source miles: Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...; Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Open source as the villain in its own story: Maybe because of JavaOne and Sun's well-known concerns about open source profit the idea of proprietary hooks which make people pay for open source software is big again. After all, if the code is free and visible why should an enterprise customer write a check to its...; Tags: Asset, Open Source, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Shuttleworth makes corporate case for Ubuntu 8.04 on its launch: Updated Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth said version 8.04 features a sexier GUI for consumers but it's the Long Term Support, Wubi Windows installer, server assets and expanding ecosystem that will make it a rising star in the corporate world. Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support...; Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Red Hat Inc., Servers, Open Source, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Zimbra's fate hangs in the balance as Microsoft gets hostile with Yahoo!: Will Microsoft embrace or kill Zimbra? Zimbra is putting on a brave face as rival Microsoft turns up the heat on its bid to buy Yahoo but fear-doubt-and uncertainty is in the air. Officially, neither Microsoft nor Zimbra would discuss...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Zimbra, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Open Source, Online Communications, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-04-08
MuleSource CEO: Mule 2.0 will kick enterprise butt: MuleSource has launched a major upgrade of its open source Enterprise Service Bus software that offers a new Eclipse integrated development environment, easier configuration and stronger Spring integration. Mule 2.0 Community Edition was made available on April 1. The company's commercial enterprise edition -- based on version...; Tags: MuleSource, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-04-01
Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBC: Six hot open source startups and projects got notice at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Not surprisingly, many of them are in software categories deemed most vulnerable to open source disruption, including collaboration and conferencing, social publishing, sales automation, application deployment and developer tools....; Tags: OSBC, MindTouch, Open Source, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-03-27
Google for enterprise: my $500 bet: Robert Scoble believes that Google is making a run for the enterprise and that over the next five years will grab at least some share of that market, specifically in email. He might be right but I'm willing to bet $500 that he's wrong. This is what I see...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Robert, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Online Communications, Internet, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-03-26
Do open source developers deserve a premium?: Today we have another one of those reports that tend to drive me crazy. It's from the Bluewolf Group of New York, located just off Madison Square Park, which calls itself "the world's leading provider of professional services for on-demand software applications." But it's not...; Tags: Open-source Developer, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-29
Google Sites is not a Sharepoint anything: The launch of Google Sites has brought an interesting divergence of opinion to ZDNet. Our Microsoft lady says it's a threat to Sharepoint. Our Google guy says it's not. Our usability guy says it stinks. And the boss says, well, it's really beta-ware. What it is,...; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft SharePoint, Matt, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-29
Open source business model reaching tipping point: Over the last several years open source has grown in stature and maturity, becoming more worthy in the eyes of corporate buyers and investors. Everyone could point to Red Hat, which dominates the Linux operating system space, as the poster child for open source but few other "pure" open source...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., F/OSS, Open Source, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-23