Aurion
31.07.08, 20:25
Open-source content management vendor Alfresco is hoping to lure away some business from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) -- with an assist from Microsoft itself.
Its Alfresco Labs v3 product, now in beta, takes advantage of the SharePoint and Office protocol documentation files that Microsoft released, among others, earlier this year.
Office applications tightly integrate with SharePoint; the protocols allow Alfresco to act as a stand-in on the back end. Office "will believe it is talking to [MOSS] but it is actually Alfresco," said cofounder and CEO John Powell.
But the vendor is being realistic about how much business it could take away from Microsoft. "We're not coming out with this to say, 'replace SharePoint,' because I think that's a dry, futile argument," Powell said.
Source :
PC World - Business Center: Alfresco Wants to Stand in for SharePoint Server (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/149208/alfresco_wants_to_stand_in_for_sharepoint_server.h tml)
Its Alfresco Labs v3 product, now in beta, takes advantage of the SharePoint and Office protocol documentation files that Microsoft released, among others, earlier this year.
Office applications tightly integrate with SharePoint; the protocols allow Alfresco to act as a stand-in on the back end. Office "will believe it is talking to [MOSS] but it is actually Alfresco," said cofounder and CEO John Powell.
But the vendor is being realistic about how much business it could take away from Microsoft. "We're not coming out with this to say, 'replace SharePoint,' because I think that's a dry, futile argument," Powell said.
Source :
PC World - Business Center: Alfresco Wants to Stand in for SharePoint Server (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/149208/alfresco_wants_to_stand_in_for_sharepoint_server.h tml)