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John Newton
Alfresco Software, Maidenhead, UK
Chairman and CTO of Alfresco. I am a serial entrepreneur having co-founded Documentum and Alfresco and one of the original engineers at Ingres. I am married and have two kids. We live in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Interests: content management, enterprise software, european travel, food, wine, history, dollar/pound exchange rate
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The Digital Enterprise of the Future
During the past month we have had our user conference, Alfresco Summit, in San Francisco and London and it was great to see everyone. I normally give the corporate direction keynote at the end of the first day. Given all... Continue reading
Posted Oct 15, 2014 at Content Log
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Future of Work Video Series
About a year ago, we started filming a series that we called the Future of Work. We sought out experts in the field who are looking at the future of how we work from very different angles. This will probably... Continue reading
Posted Oct 9, 2014 at Content Log
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Remembering Jeffrey McManus
Posted Jul 22, 2013 at Content Log
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Cloud vs. Open Source? I don't think so!
Posted Feb 10, 2012 at Content Log
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We'd be happy to discuss. Just send me an email.
Symbiosis of Cloud and On-Premise Enterprises
Symbiosis: One is free to move, the other is not. But they both need each other. Eventually we will see computing as a utility like electricity that will be consumed on demand. I also believe that cloud infrastructure providers will ultimately be able to undercut the cost advantages and carbo...
Symbiosis of Cloud and On-Premise Enterprises
Posted Feb 7, 2012 at Content Log
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Content Monkey Predicts 2012
Posted Jan 31, 2012 at Content Log
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Yes Dr. Object, you are looking very young for your age. :-)
A Month in the Bay Area
Sixteen years ago, my wife, my 9 month-old son and I left the San Francisco Bay area to live in the UK. I was still at Documentum, but I had always wanted to return after starting a company, which ended up being Documentum. Since then I have constantly flown back and forth between the UK and SFO...
HP's Board: What were they thinking?!
Posted Aug 31, 2011 at Content Log
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A Month in the Bay Area
Posted Aug 31, 2011 at Content Log
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Ken -
As a Cal Alum, I hope we meet your requirements as well. Let us know how we can help in the short term. As I mentioned in various interviews, jBPM is a good engine and very flexible. If there are any issues on workflow design, Signavio have worked with JBPM in the past. As for custom workflow solutions, we are spending a lot of time on this in the next release, but there are other solutions available. Just let me know what you need.
John
Alfresco launches new Activiti Business Process Management Initiative
Today Alfresco launched a new open source project, Activiti Business Process Management Suite along with the Spring Source division of VMware, Signavio and Camunda. We are also very pleased that Tom Baeyens, project founder of JBPM and BPM expert, has joined Alfresco along with his fellow archit...
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Putting Activiti out there as Apache and our moving the data access layer from Hibernate to Apache iBatis gives us maximum flexibility to OEM and change the license to an even more liberal license. I alluded to this in my post on changing to the LGPL license.
We will no more with Activiti and our open source project in the Spring Forge, Surf web framework. We will make a decision on Alfresco after seeing how these projects go.
John
Alfresco launches new Activiti Business Process Management Initiative
Today Alfresco launched a new open source project, Activiti Business Process Management Suite along with the Spring Source division of VMware, Signavio and Camunda. We are also very pleased that Tom Baeyens, project founder of JBPM and BPM expert, has joined Alfresco along with his fellow archit...
Alfresco launches new Activiti Business Process Management Initiative
Posted May 17, 2010 at Content Log
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Mar 15, 2010
A shift in Alfresco Community license to LGPL
First of all, it's my pleasure to recognize Alfresco's 5th birthday. In January 2005, a group of eleven of us started on a fantastic journey from a familiar world, Enterprise Content Management, into an unfamiliar one, Open Source. During this... Continue reading
Posted Jan 27, 2010 at Content Log
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8 ECM Predictions for 2010
At the recent AIIM Board Meeting that I attended this month, AIIM President John Mancini asked us to blog using the number 8. Why 8? Because no one else is using that number and AIIM can brand around it. So... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2009 at Content Log
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CMIS one year on - soon in public review
Posted Sep 29, 2009 at Content Log
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Professional Open Source Software
Posted Jul 29, 2009 at Content Log
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Jul 29, 2009
Jeff -
Share and Alfresco have been placed in AMI instances for Amazon EC2. However, we have been testing provisioning of EC2 instances and also making sure that we have sufficient admin capabilities without have to go behind the scenes into the operating system. Between these changes and the scalability testing we have been doing, we believe that Share is "Cloud Ready".
New Alfresco 3.2 was designed for the Great Recession
Back at the height of the market downturn in October, we looked at how Alfresco should address the rapidly changing economic situation. Rather than being pessimistic, we believed that this was a real opportunity for us. Times like these wipe the decks clean and provide openings for companies tha...
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