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Alfresco integrates Sharepoint capability in new release

July 31, 2008 — 12:23pm ET | By Ron Miller

Open-source content management vendor Alfresco released Alfresco Labs (Beta) 3 today, which acts as a seamless alternative for Microsoft Sharepoint. The latter capability is the result of a 2004 EU Commission ruling that ordered Microsoft to publish the Sharepoint protocols. Alfresco appears to be the first company to take advantage of this availability, and provide an identical Sharepoint experience for end users while using an Alfresco repository to store the content. Other enhancements include the new Surf platform based on Alfresco Web Scripts--a light-weight development environment similar to JavaScript--and an interface that enables business users to build small web applications to share content, collaborate and customize their user experiences. In September, they will be releasing a social networking application built on the Surf platform they are dubbing Alfresco Share.

This is a significant announcement. Alfresco has always offered a solid open-source enterprise content management alternative; with its ability to replace Sharepoint, if it works as advertised, it can provide end users with a comfortable experience using familiar Office tools while giving IT the flexibility to build its infrastructure any way it likes. Since Alfresco is open source and the Sharepoint protocol is now published, we should start seeing other companies follow suit with similar Sharepoint competitors. It should be interesting to see how this plays out, and how Microsoft and other competitors react to this news.

For more information, read:
- the CMSWire post
- DaniWeb TechTreasures Post

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By Anonymous | Posted 3:41pm | March 30, 2009

Interesting how other people base their code on those that lead. Take a look at:
www.flickr.com/photos/dogspong/
and
www.mail-archive.com/ecm-checkins@lists.nuxeo.com/msg31728.html

By Dragos Ivan | Posted 7:08am | March 31, 2009

Business & Decision Romania, as a subcontractor for Nuxeo SA France, in charge of developing some specific components for the Nuxeo EP solution, licensed under the LGPL, acknowledges that due to a regrettable mistake, some copyrighted code belonging to Alfresco, licensed under the GPL license, have been pushed to the public repository belonging to Nuxeo WSS Implementation, NXWSS. The infringed code has not been used in Nuxeo’s product in any way, as it wasn’t linked to the WSS Implementation product. The reason it was pushed in the public repository is that the developers team was comparing their own solution with Alfresco’s solution on one of the development workstations at the time of the commit. Measures were taken to remove the copyrighted code as soon as the mistake was discovered and the NXWSS functionality was not affected by this. Also, the above mentioned practice will be prohibited from now on.
Business & Decision Romania takes full responsibility for this unfortunate event. We take matters like this very serious and we will enforce stricter rules for all developers in order to avoid such events to happen in the future. We let Nuxeo SA take the appropriate actions following these events.

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