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Alfresco celebrates 5th birthday and looks to the year ahead

January 28th, 2010

I hope you all had a relaxing holiday season and are now looking forward to 2010.  As you can tell from my blog I certainly did and thanks to all of you for your positive comments.

While I was enjoying myself, and renewing my energy for another roller coaster ride at Alfresco, the team was busy preparing the release of Alfresco Enterprise 3.2. This is our most ambitious release so far and includes capabilities that add to our depth and maturity as a full featured enterprise content management system. There are capabilities in all areas including Alfresco Share, WCM, RM, administration and cloud deployment.

This year brings a special celebration for Alfresco as we celebrate our 5th birthday.  It’s been 5 short years since I, John Newton and a special team of engineers founded the company. As we reach this milestone, we are continuing to grow and innovate:

• Alfresco Enterprise 3.2 launched
• Alfresco Content Services for IBM Lotus previewed
• Asia Pacific Support Center opened
• ECM Cloud Deployments with RightScale
• Records Management certified on open source stack
• Spring Surf contributed to SpringSource Community

I recently attended IBM Lotusphere – this was the first opportunity we have had to demonstrate the technical preview of Alfresco Content Services for IBM Lotus to the Lotus developer and user community and the feedback was very positive.

I would like to extend our thanks to all in our community and subscribing customer base for your support over the last 5 years. We recognize that 2009 was an extremely challenging year for many organizations. With your support we have been able to dramatically extend the capabilities of Alfresco and its value to you.

With so much going on, Alfresco looks set to have another busy, successful and exciting year ahead. This just leaves me to wish everyone a happy new year and to say good luck in 2010!

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