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Alfresco: Open Source Alfresco 3.0 Release

By Dick Weisinger, on January 30th, 2009

Last week, coinciding with the swearing in of a new president, Alfresco made the announcement of its ‘Inaugural release’ of Alfresco 3.0 Labs edition.  The new software includes a host of new and interesting features:

- First implementation of the OASIS CMIS specification for accessing structured content across heterogeneous repositories
- The first company to replicate SharePoint-like [...]

January 30th, 2009 | Category: Alfresco, Enterprise Content Management | Leave a comment

Open Source: Not Much of a Difference for Java

By Dick Weisinger, on January 29th, 2009

A little more than two years ago, in November 2006, Sun announced the Open Sourcing of the Java development language.  At the time, Sun was pressured by the user community and by companies with large investments in Java tools and applications, like IBM and BEA.

Two years later, the main difference seems to be that tensions [...]

January 29th, 2009 | Category: Open SOurce | Leave a comment

ECM: Interwoven Acquired by Autonomy

By Dick Weisinger, on January 28th, 2009

2006 saw a huge boom of acquisition and consolidation activity among Enterprise Content management companies.
Last week Thursday UK-based Autonomy announced a cash offer to acquire Interwoven for $775 million.  Interwoven had just closed out the fourth quarter with $10.7 million profit on $69.8 million revenue.

The deal between the two companies is expected to close in [...]

January 28th, 2009 | Category: Enterprise Content Management | Leave a comment
 
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