Alfresco the Next Generation Platform

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost.

Alfresco is built using the latest open source infrastructure components including: Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, MyFaces and is based on Aspect-Oriented-Programming.

Alfresco's use of state-of-the art technology enable it to deliver a supported system that is:

   * 5 Times Faster than Traditional Closed Systems
   * 90% Less Expensive than Traditional Closed Systems

Alfresco is:

   * Open – Open Source, Open Standards
   * Source – Best-of-Breed Open Source Components
   * Enterprise – Enterprise-Scale, Enterprise-Infrastructure, Enterprise-Control
   * Content – Documents, records, Web Pages, Images, Rich Media
   * Management – Most Experienced Team in Content Management in the World from Documentum and Vignette.

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Windows 7 Desktop Optimization Pack 2010

Microsoft has labored to tailor its Desktop Optimization Pack solution accelerators to the latest iteration of the Windows client and server. On February 22nd, the Redmond company delivered the first Windows 7-  and Windows Server 2008 R2-friendly components of the Microsoft Optimization Pack 2010 (MDOP 2010), which are designed to play nice with additional technologies from the software giant, including the upcoming Office 2010.