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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…

ECM: What's in Store for 2009?

By Dick Weisinger

With the economy expected to be down for some time going forward, new twists are ahead in the ECM market. CMS Watch has made some predictions about what we might expect. Expect consolidation, especially around Web Content Management:  WCM companies…

SaaS: Salesforce Poised to Fall or to Break Away?

By Dick Weisinger

Salesforce.com closed out 2007 with an impressive number: more than 1,000,000 active users. Salesforce stock is up 56 percent over a year ago and the company expects to exceed $1 billion in revenues in FY09. The SaaS market continues its…

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…