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Alfresco Takes Aim at Microsoft with Open Source Sharepoint Alternative
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| Alfresco released Alfresco Labs (Beta) 3 today and with it announced a new
| capability that enables businesses to leverage Microsoft Sharepoint
| functionality without buying additional Sharepoint licenses. Sound too good
| to be true? It’s not, and what has allowed Alfresco to do this is the 2004 EU
| Commission order for Microsoft to publish the Sharepoint protocol.
| Apparently, Alfresco is the first ECM vendor to take advantage of the
| Sharepoint protocol availability. I spoke to Alfresco CEO John Powell about
| the significance of this announcement.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2889.html
Tight Budgets? Try Open-Source SOA!
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| Implementing SOA can be an extremely expensive undertaking. You might need to
| purchase several products within the SOA stack like an enterprise service bus
| (ESB), a business process modeling (BPM) tool, a portal, a rules engine and a
| data services tool. But it doesn't stop there. There are additional tools for
| testing, SOA governance, security... and the list goes on and on. In addition
| to all the software, you need to budget for training, hardware, consulting
| and salaries.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/073108-tight-budgets-try-open-source.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/5k4ba8
Recent:
New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePoint
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| ...everything from the lack of support for SharePoint database replication,
| to required custom development to include data stored in SharePoint lists for
| reporting purposes. Application lifecycle management of SharePoint is
| incomplete, the report authors said. And enterprise data integration for
| SharePoint is “primitive.”
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1492
Related:
Google Goes After Another Microsoft Cash Cow
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| The Internet search giant on Wednesday is rolling out a rival to Microsoft’s
| SharePoint, a program used for collaboration among teams of workers. Google’s
| program, called Google Sites, will become part of the company’s applications
| suite, which includes e-mail, calendar, word processing, spreadsheet and
| presentation software. Like other elements of Google Apps, it will be free
| and require no installation, maintenance or upgrades.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/google-goes-after-another-microsoft-cash-cow/?ref=technology
Could SharePoint Be Microsoft’s New Mode of Lock-In?
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| This could be a tough one for IT leaders. Business users are comfortable with
| Microsoft. They know how to use the Office interface, and apparently like it
| to the point users will create their own mini-BI tools from Excel and opt out
| of the corporate system. But, if Asay’s right, vendor lock-in could cause
| unforeseen problems or major costs down the road.
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| After reading Asay’s column and the interview with Nicholls, at least you’ll
| know which questions to ask before investing in either SharePoint or an
| alternative solution.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/mia/?p=198
Mainsoft solves SharePoint trap
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| Mainsoft has solved the problem of SharePoint exclusivity, enabling secure
| data transfers between a SharePoint store and an IBM Websphere portal.
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| It won’t be cheap, but it’s going to get easier, for enterprises to escape
| the SharePoint trap.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1701
Users claim six month wait for SharePoint support
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| One of the largest consulting firms focused on Microsoft technologies said
| SharePoint sometimes leads to management as well as technical challenges.
| Larry LeSueur, vice-president of infrastructure technology solutions at
| Avanade Canada, said many companies are looking at the Microsoft product as a
| collaboration aid without knowing what they're getting into. "The No. 1
| question I get from CIOs about Sharepoint is how to get it back under control
| because it's been implemented at a departmental level."
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http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/45a09da1-3e5f-4f79-ae39-eae4227d93b3.html
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