Joint MySQL Alfresco Webinar on Cost Effective Enterprise Content Management; Alfresco CTO Discusses Open Source Scale-Out Architecture.

LONDON -- Alfresco Software Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that its co-founder and CTO, John Newton, will deliver a webinar on how to deliver cost-effective content management using Alfresco and MySQL on March 9, 2006.

Newton will discuss how a new model is required to manage content across the enterprise and meet the scalability challenges of: Users, Activity, Information and Geography. Scaling up hardware, apart from being a very expensive solution, does not necessarily solve the problems of scale. New content architectures are required to provide the means to scale-out the content capacity of the organization utilizing clustering, replication, federated indexing, decentralized authority, modularity, distributed caching and locking. This needs to be built using the latest state-of-the-art open source components to provide the most scalable architecture and speed the development of new capabilities.

In this Web Seminar you will get an in-depth look at Scale-Out. Topics to be covered include:

--A Brief History of ECM 

--Why Open Source ECM

--What is Scale-Out

--Benefits of Open Source Scale-Out for ECM

--Scale-Out Open Source ECM Stack

--Scale-Out Open Source ECM Architecture

--Open Source Scale-Out Strategies

--Best Practice

--Alfresco and MySQL in Action - Case Studies

Webinar attendees will be able to access:

--White Paper - Scale Out for Enterprise Content Management by John Newton, CTO and Co-Founder Alfresco

--On-Line Trial Access to the recent release of Alfresco 1.2 - Content Powered by Alfresco, Data Powered by MySQL

The Web Seminar takes place on March 9, 2006, 10:00 am PST, 1:00 pm EST, 18:00 GMT.

The presentation will be approximately 45 minutes long followed by Q&A.

Registration details for this webinar can be found at: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/mysql-alfresco.php

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 and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell. Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfresco.com

John Newton: Founder, CTO and Chairman of Alfresco.

John has had one of the longest and most influential careers in content management. In 1990, John co-founded, designed and led the development of Documentum, the leader in content management recently acquired by EMC. For the next ten years, he invented many of the concepts widely used in the industry today. John has also been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital. John was one of the founding engineers at Ingres where he helped develop the world's first commercial relational database. John graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.