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Alfresco Launches Cloud Content Application Developer Program
October 8th, 2009 | 
Author: Alfresco Launches Cloud Content Application Developer Program
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-09-21
Alfresco will provide an open source Amazon EC2-ready stack and developer kit for customers and partners to develop, deploy and monetize cloud service architecture content applications on the EC2 platform.
The Alfresco Cloud Developer Program, offering “early adopter” advantages to its partners to deliver cloud-ready content applications for collaboration, document and records management. Alfresco will also offer a subscription for those requiring expert Enterprise 24/7 support.
According to the study “Above the Clouds: a Berkeley View of Cloud Computing,” the cost of cloud computing is one-fifth to one-seventh of that offered to a medium sized data center. By promoting the CMIS standard and making it easy to get on board the cloud, Alfresco is providing a great service to promote the success of their ECM solution. Sounds like a winning combination.
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Alfresco Wants Enterprise Content Management in the Cloud
Alfresco Wants Enterprise Content Management in the Cloud
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-09-21
The open source enterprise content management company has unveiled a developer program for those looking to host both the community and enterprise versions of its software on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform. Alfresco is a leading open source alternative for document and Web content management, competing strongly with ECM giants like Open Text, Documentum, and SharePoint.
The core of what Alfresco is offering is an AMI (Amazon Machine Image), a pre-built software package for creating a virtual machine on EC2. The first Alfresco AMI is only for the community edition, and doesn’t include their SharePoint module or the mobile browser UI for accessing Alfresco from smartphones. Alfresco is planning future releases that will support all editions.
See the last TechPodcasts roundtable for a simple introduction for getting started with Amazon cloud services – that used an older AMI from Bitnami – so put in the new image, and you should be ready to go.