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The Case for Community Involvement with Commercial Open Source
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| There are lots of reasons why open source software as a design, development
| and distribution model has made great strides over recent years. Distributed
| development and the ability to discover like-minded collaborators, made
| possible with the Internet, was a game changer that gave way to a host of
| lower cost, reliable alternatives to proprietary offerings. And the recent
| economic downturn is just another shot in the arm for lower cost options.
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http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/nancy/?p=195
Accenture to Acquire Symbian Professional Services Operations from Nokia,
Expanding Capabilities in Embedded Software Services for Mobile Devices
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| Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into an agreement to acquire the
| professional services unit of Nokia (NOK) responsible for Symbian customer
| engineering and customer support. The Symbian operating system is the world’s
| most widely used platform for smartphones. Terms of the transaction were not
| disclosed.
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http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=4853
Recent:
Red Hat, Alfresco Attack Microsoft SharePoint
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| The VAR Guy hears it all the time: VARs and managed service providers
| generate hefty profits with on-premise and hosted Microsoft SharePoint. In
| fact, SharePoint has grown to become a $1 billion business for Microsoft. But
| now, Red Hat and Alfresco are trying to direct some of those SharePoint
| channel dollars toward open source alternatives. Here’s the scoop from The
| VAR Guy.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/06/23/red-hat-alfresco-attack-microsoft-sharepoint/
Alfresco, ParaScale Team Up for Content as a Service in the Cloud
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| "This lowers costs both by eliminating a layer of servers to run Alfresco as
| well as by allowing the usage of commodity-priced storage," Krishnan
| said. "ParaScale's storage nodes are standard Linux servers, and it took zero
| effort for Alfresco to bring up their application directly on ParaScale's
| storage servers."
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Alfresco-ParaScale-Team-Up-for-ContentasaService-in-the-Cloud-806749/
Related:
Put to the Test: Alfresco Enterprise Content Management
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| Alfresco uses the GNU General Public License and support comes
| in Gold and Platinum, priced at $15,000 per CPU and $20,000
| per CPU annually, respectively.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070417/tc_cmp/199001307
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