Alfresco Selected as One of Linux Magazine’s Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008
The Linux Magazine list is comprised of the top 20 companies and technologies that the Linux Magazine editors feel will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in the coming year.
(EMAILWIRE.COM, January 16, 2008 ) LONDON—January 16, 2007 — Alfresco Software today announced it has been named one of Linux Magazine’s Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008. The Linux Magazine list is comprised of the top 20 companies and technologies that the Linux Magazine editors feel will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in the coming year.
To be chosen as one of the Top 20, all companies had to not only be members of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, but they also had to have had a major impact or made a major contribution to the community in 2007. The editors of Linux Magazine Alfresco was recognized for its new enterprise social computing platform release, which includes integration with Facebook. compiled the list after conferring with industry experts, conducting a reader poll, as well as using their own industry observations.
“Alfresco is a very nice collaboration platform alternative to being locking into Microsoft SharePoint,” said Joe Brockmeier, Editor of Linux Magazine, “and with the added Facebook integration, Alfresco is sure to gain more visibility in 2008.”
Alfresco recently announced the integration of Alfresco with Facebook to deliver a platform for developing content-centric applications. This integration makes publishing content to Facebook as controlled and effective as publishing to a corporate Web site. The Alfresco Enterprise Content Network application, which is built on this framework, enables collaboration and makes secure, audited, sharing of content in Facebook as simple as sharing a photo. Alfresco is the first of its kind to launch an enterprise application for Facebook.
Alfresco can be downloaded from http://www.alfresco.com/products/ecm/enttrial/
About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software, Inc., is the first and leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell, Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfresco.com.
About Linux Magazine
Published by QuarterPower Media since 1999, Linux Magazine is the premier resource for Linux and Open Source in enterprise computing. Written by experts and open source community leaders, Linux Magazine offers IT professionals, CXOs, programmers, system administrators, webmasters, and IT managers, pragmatic, insightful, and solutions-oriented information. For more information, visit http://www.linux-mag.com/