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A shift in Alfresco Community license to LGPL

Jan 27, 2010 11:14am

First of all, it's my pleasure to recognize Alfresco's 5th birthday. In January 2005, a group of eleven of us started on a fantastic journey from a familiar world, Enterprise Content Management, into an unfamiliar one, Open Source. During this......

8 ECM Predictions for 2010

Dec 31, 2009 8:44am

At the recent AIIM Board Meeting that I attended this month, AIIM President John Mancini asked us to blog using the number 8. Why 8? Because no one else is using that number and AIIM can brand around it. So......

CMIS one year on - soon in public review

Sep 29, 2009 2:24pm

Autumn marks the new school year, business year and CMIS year It's that time again. Autumn and the new school year and we are about to take another major step with CMIS, the Content Management Interoperability Services proposed standard at......

Professional Open Source Software

Jul 29, 2009 7:15am

I am constantly asked about why we put our software out as open source. Is it some sort of altruism? Communism? People who have worked with proprietary platforms may not be familiar with open source and its implications or the......

New Alfresco 3.2 was designed for the Great Recession

Jul 6, 2009 4:45am

Back at the height of the market downturn in October, we looked at how Alfresco should address the rapidly changing economic situation. Rather than being pessimistic, we believed that this was a real opportunity for us. Times like these wipe......

The Start of Open Source

Apr 15, 2009 11:01am

I have been researching the origins of open source recently and realized that I had missed an important anniversary last year. On a very rainy day in early February 1998, a group of people very familiar with free software met......

Twittering My Life Away

Apr 15, 2009 4:00am

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round I really love to watch them roll! John Lennon - Watching the Wheels, 1980 Earlier this year, I said that I would blog more, what I should have said,......

Building a stronger open source product

Mar 31, 2009 4:43am

It has been fascinating to watch the Alfresco community grow over the last few years. We really had no idea what the shape would be when we started and who would adopt our product and our project. Since 2005, we......

Happy Birthday US Space Program

Jan 31, 2009 9:59am

From the Smithsonian National Aeronautics and Space Museum, which John Powell and I visited during the Washington Alfresco Community Conference in Oct 2008 My birthday, January 31st, is always the anniversary of the US space program. On the very same......

CMIS Face to Face at Microsoft in Redmond

Jan 29, 2009 2:32pm

Dave Caruana and I just finished participating the in the first Face to Face of the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee here in Redmond, WA. Companies participating in person were IBM, Oracle, EMC, Alfresco, Exalead, OpenText, SAP, Day, Nuxeo, Dennis Hamilton......