Alfresco Adds Common Internet File System Support for Microsoft Windows Inter-operability.LONDON -- Alfresco, the first provider of open source enterprise content management software, announced today the inclusion of support for the industry standard Common Internet File System (protocol) Common Internet File System - (CIFS) An Internet file system protocol, based on Microsoft's SMB. Microsoft has given CIFS to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an Internet Draft. CIFS is intended to complement existing protocols such as HTTP, FTP, and NFS. , or CIFS (Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. , becoming the first open source content management system to do so. John Newton For other persons of the same name, see John Newton (disambiguation). John Newton (July 24, 1725 – December 21, 1807) was an Anglican clergyman who had, at one time, been a slaveship master. He is best known as the author of the hymn Amazing Grace. , CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Alfresco explained, "This brings a whole new level of ease of use to content management. CIFS support allows users to treat a content management as a Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. shared file drive. Unlike other interfaces, CIFS allows users to take work offline and synchronize See synchronization. it when reconnecting. It also allows applications that will only work with mounted drives or non-networked file systems to work with our repository." Gary Spencer, the founder of JLan, the first and only Java provider of the complete CIFS protocol, has joined Alfresco and made his source code available as open source through the Alfresco platform. "I have been working on CIFS support for the last seven years and have had many prominent content management vendors as customers of JLan," said Spencer. "File share access makes content management so much easier than traditional interfaces. I look forward to making it available to a much wider audience through the Alfresco content repository." John Powell, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Alfresco, commented, "We are very pleased that Gary has decided to join us. We think this really changes the game, not just for open source, but also for the entire content management industry. Ease of use and cost of commercial systems are what customers are saying are the barriers to content management adoption. The Alfresco system with CIFS support and open source distribution addresses both." Alfresco will provide a technology preview of the Alfresco system with CIFS support at the end of June. Source code and executables will be available for download from alfresco.org. About Alfresco Alfresco brings a fresh approach to enterprise content management by making it easier for users to quickly and easily manage, distribute and use the massive amounts of content created daily. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfresco.org. |
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