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Open source largest software industry: Alfresco CEO
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| How can something given away for free end up being the world's largest
| industry of its type? Well, according to open source content management
| vendor Alfresco CEO John Powell the value of open source is not what it
| generates, but what it saves, and that's worth billions.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;896124703
Alfresco's Latest ECM: Prying Open a Sector?
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| John Newton, the chairman and CTO at open source document management firm
| Alfresco, is no stranger to Enterprise Content Management (ECM). You might
| even say he helped put the term on the IT map when he co-founded Documentum,
| the document management company that EMC later bought.
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| But that was then. Now, he's all about Alfresco's latest Enterprise 2.2
| product, and is trying to up the ante in a market sector dominated by
| proprietary vendors.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3746996/Alfrescos+Latest+ECM+Prying+Open+a+Sector.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5qjcse
Recent:
Alfresco's sales up 320 percent, hits 30,000 active deployments
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| Frankly, even Microsoft could use this model - as Marc Fleury pointed out to
| me earlier this week - without skipping a beat. It could adopt Red Hat's
| model tomorrow without sacrificing its billions in profit. If anything, it
| should grow with a model that focuses on widespread, cheap distribution.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9913953-16.html
Related:
Linux Market to Triple by 2012
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| Analyst firm Research and Markets has just put out a project on Linux-based
| server and client hardware sales, and is projecting that the market will more
| than triple between 2007 and 2012.
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| A market for a platform is not the same as an ecosystem for it, which is much
| larger in that it includes the cost of people and third-party software and
| services for the code that runs atop the platform. So the R&M Linux market
| numbers might seem a little small. In any event, the consultancy pegged the
| Linux product and services market for Linux running on servers and clients
| (but not embedded systems) at $2.4 billion in 2007.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb031108-story07.html
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