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  • Alfresco grows by over 100% in 2008

    Steve Odart, Director

    I read with interest the following press release from Alfresco.I think John Powell sums it up nicely : “Alfresco has been able to grow and evolve the ECM market in this economy by not only continuously investing in our products and services, but by filling a critical need for companies that are shifting away from costly proprietary systems, recognizing the value of the open source business model and looking to make multi-year commitments to Alfresco technologies.

  • Open source is years behind commercial products

    Steve Odart, Director

    Well that got my attention as a viewpoint! Especially as it was a Computerweekly.com article quoting the Socitm president Richard Steel.

    I had been perusing the net to see what the reaction was to the recently announced government's policy on open source software , and came across this fascinating debate. I guess it struck a chord with me as it tends to be the common theme in my daily grind, working with organizations and companies that are considering whether or not to pursue an open source content management route.

  • Relevancy Driven Development with Solr

    Robin Bramley, Consultant

    The relevancy of search engine results is very subjective so therefore testing the relevancy of queries is also subjective.One technique that exists in the information retrieval field is the use of judgement lists; an alternative approach discussed here is to follow the Behaviour Driven Development methodology employing user story acceptance criteria – I’ve been calling this Relevancy Driven Development or RDD for short.

  • The Golden Age of Open Source

    Steve Odart, Director

    I have already seen the change happen in the world of content management. As we came out of the summer of 2009, hard on the tail of a global economic meltdown, something changed in the take up of open source ECM in the blue chip arena of business. Our projects suddenly shifted from strategic, point solutions leveraging the open source model of Alfresco to become main stream, enterprise adoptions of Alfresco as a chosen, strategic enterprise content management platform across global corporations and organisations. Not just on one or two occasions, not just in one or two sectors, but across the board.

  • UK Government says YES! to open source

    Steve Odart, Director

    Tom Watson MP – Minister for Digital Engagement, has released a detailed and forward thinking plan that should radically impact the procurement processes within the UK Public Sector.

  • What's New to Alfresco 3.4?

    Tom Morris, Consultant

    At Ixxus we've been investigating features new to Alfresco version 3.4, and have started to use them in real world situations. This release contains so many interesting features, that's hard to list them all in detail. Of particular interest to me is the alternative new approach to using Alfresco for WCM applications

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