SharePoint without Microsoft: Alfresco’s Macho Move
August 4, 2008
Microsoft SharePoint is one of Microsoft’s most successful server products. I have heard that there somewhere between 65 and 100 million users. When I am stuck for a joke during a speech, I point out that there is an equal number of SharePoint consultants. One Microsoft wizard told me last year the Enterprise Search Summit West that SharePoint was content management, collaboration, and search.
I pointed out that the search system spawned an ecosystem of snap in products because the search was pretty awful. The document limit does not help too much either. Nevertheless, SharePoint is the answer to an information technology’s managers dreams. Sometimes, the dream becomes a nightmare, but that goes for most enterprise software.
Now SharePoint has a competitor. You can read a news release about this competitive product here. Alfresco Labs 3 can replace SharePoint, and you can download a version here.
Alfresco, according to the news release:
is the first ECM product to implement the SharePoint protocol and provides users with the same access from Microsoft Office, while giving companies the freedom of choice in their hardware, database, operating system, application server and portal products. Customers will experience the best of both worlds providing workers with an easy-to-use content management and collaboration tool that is integrated with Microsoft Office while lowering overall IT costs and increasing return on existing investments.
You can get more information about Alfresco and the SharePoint replacement at www.alfresco.com.
Stephen Arnold, August 4, 2008
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