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Open Source: Investments Flow Into Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Yesterday was a big day for Open Source investment funding. GreenPlum, Alfresco, and Zenoss all received investment dollars. Greenplum received $27 million from Meritech Capital partners, Sun Microsystems, SAP Ventures and others. Greenplum is an Open Source Postgresql-based database that

Alfresco: A Billion-Document Benchmark in 2008?

By Dick Weisinger

Alfresco 1.4 system was benchmarked in 2006 against a system with 10 million documents. At that time the benchmark was made against a dual-processor, dual-core 2.6 MHz Opteron system with 12 GigaBytes. Reasonable hardware, but not really “enterprise class”. But

Open Source: CEOs Predict Banner Year

By Dick Weisinger

Today the Open Solutions Alliance announced the results of their survey of predictions from leading Open Source company CEOs. Not too unpredictably, all CEOs are very high on the prospects for Open Source in 2008. Some of their predictions include:

ECM: Alfresco Turns Three

By Dick Weisinger

John Newton and the Open Source Alfresco ECM team are celebrating their third birthday this week. Newton’s Alfresco is the scrappy low-budget high-quality challenger to EMC’s Documentum, a company Newton founded, and other behemoths of the commercial ECM space. In

ECM: Catch the Wave

By Dick Weisinger

Hot on the heels of Gartner’s 2007 ECM industry report is the “Forrester Wave for ECM Suites in 2007”. Forrester looked at only 11 ECM vendors and broke down their evaluation into three categories: Current Offering, Strategy/Roadmap, and Market Presence.