Open Source Talk

In this Podcast I review Alfresco 1.3 with John Newton, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Alfresco.

Specifically we discuss:

• What were the major focus areas around 1.3?
• What was done to increase scalability and performance?
• The larger a system the more focus there is on administration. What has been done here?
• The other major area of focus was customization. This obviously affects the server and the client. What has been done here?
• CIFs is probably the most common interface to Alfresco. What work has been done on CIFS?
• Collaboration is a whole area in itself and the concept of SmartSpaces and email interaction is key to this. What has been done here?
• Other areas of interest.

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In this Podcast I discuss an introduction the Alfresco 2006 Roadmap with John Newton, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Alfresco.

Specifically we discuss:

• What are the main objectives for 2006?
• When some people say content management they mean Web Content Management. What is the focus here?
• ECM has many different definitions. What do you see as the big areas of ECM?
• When you look at those areas they are often a platform for developing content centric applications. What is our focus here?
• When you compare ECM to other areas of software is has been pretty devoid of core standards. There has been no SQL of content and I know we believe that that has stunted the growth of content management. What are the standards Alfresco is focusing on?
• Use of standards is one thing but users want standards and performance. One of things we focus on is “Production Ready Open Source”. What are we doing about Enterprise scalability?
• Collaboration is a key driver in the creation and capture of content. What features are we focusing on here?
• Administration of content management is very important, particularly in a highly-available or distributed configuration. What are we working in this area?

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