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Why don't look at Apache's jackrabbit ( http://jackrabbit.apache.com/ )? Afresco costs money and it does necessarily any better than Jackrabbit on what you needs. You may also find http://jackrabbit.elookinto.com/ useful.

Umm... something having a bug isn't an incredible claim. Sure, it's not a good thing but it happens to everyone. It's nothing to be ashamed about. Just get the bastard fixed and stop dicking about.

This isn't about a perpetual motion machine or an entropy reducing device, or even P vs. NP or Riemann's Hypothesis. This is code. This isn't world changing. Bugs happen, then they get fixed. If they want to stay silent to dodge liability let them. If there is a bug it'll be patched, if there isn't they'll fade into obscurity.

Very good overview overview of it is available at apache's website

SVG native authoring
- Sodipodi (linux)
- Inkscape (linux)
- Sketsa (cross platform/java)
- Evolgraphix XStudio (Windows ???)
- Jasc WebDraw (Windows)

other non native, but export to svg
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe GoLive
- Corel suites
- Scribus (linux)
- etc

viewer
-Adobe SVG Viewer
-Corel SVG Viewer
-Apache Batik (Java)
-Mobiform

SVG library
-librsvg (linux)
-Apache Batik (Java)
-SharpVector (dotNet)

other info on SVG
-http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

someone care to add?

SVG native authoring
- Sodipodi (linux)
- Inkscape (linux)
- Sketsa (cross platform/java)
- Evolgraphix XStudio (Windows ???)
- Jasc WebDraw (Windows)

other non native, but export to svg
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe GoLive
- Corel suites
- Scribus (linux)
- etc

viewer
-Adobe SVG Viewer
-Corel SVG Viewer
-Apache Batik (Java)
-Mobiform

SVG library
-librsvg (linux)
-Apache Batik (Java)
-SharpVector (dotNet)

other info on SVG
-http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

someone care to add?

I tried to submit similar article on Jan 22 but it was not accepted. Evidently Microsoft responded to the complain and Apache is not blacklisted anymore. Below is my original one month old post. Sorry URL show proper results now and I did not saved the original search results.

A few days ago I noticed that every time I use Internet Explorer (i.e. MSN search) to look for apache related projects I never got a reference to apache.org websites.

Examples: jelly script , maven apache , cocoon framework .

*.apache.org sites never came up. I am not even talking about listing it as "featured web site". It never came up as the link at all!!! The best you would get is a reference to XML.com website discussing the technology but not to technology itself.

Even search for "apache web" got the reference www.apache.com as the featured site instead of www.apache.org Only "apache" got "apache.org" as the featured site at the second place after oil related Apache corporation. Yahoo and Google as you would expect did proper job.

I am a Linux newbie, loud and proud. Vitals: 36 yrs, liberal arts background, married, new kid; Specs: vintage 1981 programming skills (BASIC, FORTRAN 77); more recently, typesetting on a VMS for five years. Motivation: computers aren't boring anymore.

In June of this year, after farting around with the Cygnus tools and NTemacs on my wife's Winblows machine for a year or so and finding myself with a small pile of discretionary cash I purchase a very butch custom machine from Apache Digital <PLUG>outstanding service</PLUG> with Linux pre-installed. Everything I've read indicates install is easy and this is borne out by subsequent experience. The first thing I want to accomplish with my new machine is to change the name from the silly one assigned by the tech at ADC, so I poke around in linuxconf and redefine the loopback address to the obviously unresolvable name Darlene.

Of course an astounding array of services are no longer accessible at this point. After several hours of frenzied research in xterm, ls and lessing like hell, I figure out that I might try and recreate the config file as it once was. Like a bolt, I realize cat is the answer. I fix the machine and restore my failing KDE session without even rebooting. I take several things away from this 3am jaunt through my ext2 filesystem: a) MS would never have allowed me to do something so foolish; b) I would have been unable to fix such a blunder in MS without a reinstall, let alone rebooting; c) more knowledge about loopback and what it does than I could have gained from 40 lbs of doco; d) a total love affair with Linux.

I have since built a PC from scratch with cast-off parts, after generously volunteering to upgrade my wife's machine <GRIN/>, installed Debian without X and am in the midst of configuring it as a gateway/firewall/mailserver.

The doco for Linux is generally outstanding. The volume of docs for Linux is a problem, but also a direct reflection of just how much you can do with the system. The writing is generally excellent, much better than most other technical docs I've encountered. The bias toward technical detail again reflects the nature of the beast.

Just the opinion of a perfectly satisfied, completely insane Linux newbie/junkie.

Why does this bother you? They sell Intel stuff, and now Intel funds them. Logical.

If you want Alpha, you know where to find it. (to paraphrase Dennis Ritchie).

Seriously, if VA Research doesn't sell your preferred platform, simply take your business elsewhere. Aspen Systems, Apache Digital and DCG all sell Alpha (and Sparc)-based linux boxes. Where is it written that a good Linux vendor has to sell all flavors of processors?

-Erik