Alfresco go go go
Since the beginning of 2005 I’ve been concentrating on a new venture named Alfresco, an open source enterprise content management system. We announced ourselves in June and on the 27th, posted our preview release for download.
So far, we’ve actually been surprised by the positive response and coverage we’re getting in the press. This is encouraging and helping us drive towards our next goal in October.
Alfresco is different in that the core team (which includes dedicated qa & user interface design) has come from the commercial content management world and is not only experienced in these matters, but has worked together for years. The jewel though is that John Newton (co-founder of Documentum - the big bang of content management) is the co-founder (with John Powell of Business Objects) of Alfresco. This gives Alfresco at least 15 years of experience in content management with a unique understanding and insight based on the requirements of thousands of enterprises.
What’s happening now? Well, we’re beginning to build a community (both developer and end-user) whilst heads-down on delivering the first “production” release targetted October 05.
The current preview includes a content management repository, portlet based web application concentrating on document management (which just looks and feels great - yes, I’m biased, but it’s true) as well as CIFS integration for windows and unix file access. All of this is available at http://www.alfresco.org.