Alfresco Named One of Emerging Elite Winners at Open Source Business Conference.LONDON -- Group of Leading Enterprise Class Open Source Leaders Emerging Alfresco, Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that it has been named one of the emerging elite winners at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC OSBC Open Source Business Conference OSBC One Stop Business Center ) in Boston. Previous winners include SugarCRM and BitTorrent. This award reflects a growing agreement in the software industry that open source is having a major impact in enterprise architectures with over $400m being invested in open source companies in the last 18 months. The move started with Linux and has now moved up the stack to the relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. system, application server and Enterprise Content Management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) layers. A group of enterprise class open source leaders is emerging in each of these areas to offer an open source alternative to traditional vendors. "We see Enterprise Content Management as a key driver for corporate database adoption," said Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing for MySQL AB MySQL AB (founded 1995) is dual headquartered in Uppsala Sweden and Cupertino California USA. The company is the creator and owner of MySQL, a relational database management system. . "MySQL Network and Alfresco are a great combination as an open source alternative to traditional enterprise database software." Customers cite a dramatic reduction in cost, Alfresco's ground breaking architecture coupled with open source technologies, and ease-of-use as key drivers in their decision. "Our 15 years experience in building enterprise-class content management systems put us in a unique position to deliver open source enterprise content management", said Dr. Ian Howells Ian Lester Howell (born May 20, 1958 in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa) is a South African cricket umpire. As a player he played first-class cricket for Border and Eastern Province in South Africa. , chief marketing officer, Alfresco. "This award is both a reflection of the recognition of open source as a mature technology and the emergence of enterprise class solutions". About Alfresco Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. 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, 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. and former COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. of Business Objects, John Powell. Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfrescosoftware.com |
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