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

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

My brother-in-law, Jeffrey McManus (on Facebook), passed away on July 5th at the age of 46. It was way too soon and unexpected. This came at a very bittersweet time in our lives as my son, Michael, was about to... Continue reading

Is cloud a threat to open source? Far from it! Not only does the cloud run on open source, but the cloud provides new opportunities for open source, content management and Alfresco. It's just another, but exciting place to deploy open source. Continue reading

Some organizations will run headlong into the cloud. Some CIOs will never touch it. The use cases will determine who will pursue which path. In reality, most organizations do not have an either / or choice, but must do both. Looking at the symbiosis of cloud systems with those on-premise can give a clue for some organizations on how they can get the best early value from the cloud. For those that have already started, symbiosis is a way to lure in the rest of the organization. Continue reading

With the Prediction 2012 season closing, I use a dart-throwing monkey to predict what will happen in the world of Content Management. After all, experts are actually worse at predicting the future than dart-throwing monkeys. Continue reading

What are they thinking? HP buying Autonomy! It took everybody by surprise, probably because it isn't the most logical of moves in today's industry. The last rumor I heard connected to Autonomy was nearly a year ago that they were... Continue reading

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... Continue reading

Alfresco has 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 architect Joram Barrez. They bring a wealth of business process experience to a clean slate to build a next generation BPM system that will be licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. This combination can have profound implications for both the business process and content management spaces. Continue reading

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

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

Autumn marks the new school year, business year and CMIS year It's that time again. Autumn and the new school year and we are about to take another major step with CMIS, the Content Management Interoperability Services proposed standard at... Continue reading

I am constantly asked about why we put our software out as open source. Is it some sort of altruism? Communism? People who have worked with proprietary platforms may not be familiar with open source and its implications or the... Continue reading