Alfresco Standards Update - An Interview with John Newton, Co-Founder and CTO of Alfresco
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006In this Podcast I discuss recent news and review standards and standards bodies with John Newton, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Alfresco.
Specifically we discuss:
- Recent industry news and how the ECM market is similar to the database market in the early 1990’s undergoing consolidation and standards adoption
- An update on the ECM standards bodies, the standards and the goals from both the perspective for the software community and the end-users
- Approaches to federated, distributed and replicated repositories
- JSR-170 – Simple versioning and permissions
- JSR-283 – Flexible data model, simple versioning, Dublin core, permissions
- IECM – Platform for developing ECM applications independently of underlying platform
- Biggest thing to expect in content management standards in the 2007
- Best piece of advice for end users regarding content management standards for 2007
