Content Log

IT Conversations - An Open Source Convert

About a week ago, I participated in a podcast for IT Conversations to discuss Alfresco, open source and content management. It was part of Phil Windley's Technometria series where Phil is an amiable host talking about IT experiences with people involved in the industry. It's really informal and I practically ended up talking about my life history with Phil, Scott Lemon and Ben Galbraith. I hope I don't bore you, but I also discuss what enterprise content management is and where Alfresco is heading.

Phil Windley

I guess the thing that struck Phil was that I once didn't believe in open source. Like Bill Gates, I thought open source was Communism. It took a conversation with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, back in 2001 to convince me otherwise.

You can listen to the podcast here.

Content Management Podcast - Alfresco 1.4 Business Process Release

The Alfresco 1.4 Podcast comes on the hard on the heels of our very late 1.3 podcast, but it is well worth it. Ian and I discussed the new release and the power of not just our integration with JBoss's jBPM, but also some of the new visual aspects that make it simple to add new dashboard views to keep track of the processes. We also discuss the new records management and extensive auditing capabilities.

In the upcoming podcasts over the next two weeks, we will be going more in depth into the DOD 5015.2 records management capabilities and the image management integrations.

Content Management Podcast - Alfresco 1.3

Better late than never! Ian Howells and I did a podcast on Alfresco release 1.3. Although release 1.3 has been out for a couple of months, the summer has actually been very busy for us and full of personal setbacks for Ian. We are still excited about the release though, especially the ability for mere mortals to add scripting to the server (thanks to Kevin Roast) and tremendous performance improvements (thanks to Andy Hind and Derek Hulley).

I hope you can listen before our next one comes out for release 1.4!