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The rise of Alfresco: ECM that people will really use (LinuxWorld)

[Posted April 27, 2007 by ris]

LinuxWorld looks at Alfresco. "Alfresco is an enterprise content management system that, according to some users, is beating legacy content management systems in speed, quality and ease of use. It has been around since 2005, but the open source, open standards, enterprise scale content management system offered by Alfresco is winning the trust of the marketplace."

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Posted Apr 27, 2007 21:12 UTC (Fri) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]

An exceptionally uninformative article. Other than hype and the great
fact that this project is new and therefore not burdened with legacy
code, there is no usable technical information.

tnoo

The rise of Alfresco: ECM that people will really use (LinuxWorld)

Posted Apr 27, 2007 21:49 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

I found one useful bit of technical information in there: it's Java. That must be what
makes it "enterprise".

The rise of Alfresco: ECM that people will really use (LinuxWorld)

Posted Apr 27, 2007 21:17 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]

I fear this Hybernate stuff. Typically the database model is a hack job, full of problems waiting growth to rear their ugly heads; and even with a nice job they treat all DBs as simple storage devices, creating an unnecessarily slow system.

The rise of Alfresco: ECM that people will really use (LinuxWorld)

Posted Apr 27, 2007 21:55 UTC (Fri) by hazmat (subscriber, #668) [Link]

the alfresco database is completely unuseable without using their hibernate mapping. forget about using reporting tools against the database structure. its heavily reliant on the hibernate cache and normalized to keep most of the content data in key/value tables (node properties keyed by content aspect).

pride comes before a fall?

Posted Apr 28, 2007 6:55 UTC (Sat) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

Oh, so mature CMSes that have been around since 2000 as free and since 1997 as a project on its own -- I mean TYPO3 -- can go shoot themselves in a foot, yeah.

-1 for the hype and self-boosting.

The rise of Alfresco: ECM that people will really use (LinuxWorld)

Posted Apr 29, 2007 4:59 UTC (Sun) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

It seems to me like almost any given article from LinuxWorld these days is pretty much a rewritten press release. Am I the only one thinking this?