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Reactions to Adobe-Day purchase
A week ago, we woke up to the news that Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) had purchased Day Software for $240 million--a move that seemed surprising on a number of levels. First of all, Day is company that uses... Read more...
New Alfresco release casts a wide net
Alfresco released Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 last week, which it claims is the first commercial release to support the new CMIS content management sharing standard. (CMIS provides a single way to share... Read more...
Alfresco changes to LGPL open source license
In a blog post last week, Alfresco CTO John Newton, announced that his company was moving the community version of Alfresco to an LGPL license. Newton explained this was the same license that Jobs... Read more...
New Alfresco release focuses on records management and mobile
The folks at Alfresco, the open source enterprise content management vendor, have clearly been paying attention. Two things that are on the minds of folks who manage content is how to get the records... Read more...
Don't stop till you get enough
As we continue to unpack our coverage from AIIM Expo last week, there will be no shortage of insight from the people Ron Miller met with at the conference (see a slideshow of AIIM 2009 in pictures).... Read more...
Can a trusted social network become a personal taxonomy?
In order to gather information for this newsletter, I subscribe to blogs, Google searches and a myriad of sources where I collect and cull information. I use a number of tools to do this including... Read more...
Web 2.0 and social media continue to transform content management
Back in 2007, after spending a day at AIIM in Boston, I wondered if ECM was still relevant, but one voice that caught my attention that day belonged to John Newton, CTO at Alfresco (whom we... Read more...
CMIS could arrive by early 2010
I was surprised to open J Boye's blog this week and find a post called "Don't Worry about CMIS." The post suggests that you shouldn't be thinking about CMIS for 18-24 months. I think Boye is being... Read more...
CMIS gurus gather for first OASIS Technical Committee meeting
Last week some of the biggest names in content management gathered in the same room at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA. They were there for the first OASIS CMIS Technical Committee meeting to... Read more...
Alfresco releases Alfresco Labs 3.0
Alfresco released a new web development tool called Alfesco Web Studio this week that adds front-end editing and page creation capability to its core back-end content management system. The editing... Read more...
