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Open Source — Selling Software That Sells Itself
mrcgran writes to mention that LinuxWorld is running an interview with Alfresco's Matt Asay. "Open source is changing not just how companies make software, but how they sell it. Alfresco's Matt Asay explains the new sales cycle and the skills that today's software sales people need to close deals. [...] 'But you know what? We have worked with Microsoft on interop without doing any sort of a patent deal; as has Sugar and MySQL and Zend and these other companies. We work directly with Microsoft for a customer of ours to insure SQL Server integration with Alfresco. Didn't have to sign any patent deal with them to get that done. We both had a mutual customer. It was in our mutual interest. We both wanted to make money, therefore we did it. But the patent thing is a complete smoke and mirrors, I don't want to say trick, but it has nothing to do with interoperability. No matter how much Microsoft may repeat that, it has nothing to do with interoperability.'"
The community version does not need a license key, but you used the Enterprise trial version. on the download page you can read "Please note this is a time-limited trial and by installing the software you are agreeing to our Enterprise Trial license, specifically that you will uninstall it in 30 days if you decide to not purchase the Alfresco Enterprise Network" If you want open-source, use the community version.
Yes. What's on the Alfresco website is indeed demoware. You can get the open source edition from their dev site here.
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SugarCRM is nothing like Alfresco! Alfresco is more like products like Documentum. Alfresco is the solution for all those documents you have laying around your company's share drives. Drag those documents into Alfresco. It's simple, just connect to Alfresco using FTP/WEBDAV/CIFS (SMB). Alfresco will authenticate against almost anything. Alfresco indexes all the documents. Change a document? Alfresco keeps the revisions. Want to start a discussion about the document? No prob. Need to find a document? All documents in Alfresco are searchable. Open a document in Word and see the revisions and TODO's? No problem, there is a MS Office and OpenOffice plugin.
.doc files.
.doc's in Samba. Use Alfresco! I wish the word would get out on this thing. It is fantastic software that is badly needed.
Alfresco gets compared to Sharepoint a lot, but from what I've seen it is much better than SP.
The thing that I'm looking forward to is wiki integration. Now that will be amazing. Full web content managed along side traditional
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I do not represent the Alfresco company in any way. I'm just a person that recently discovered it.