The Cost of Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise level applications are not cheap. In particular, enterprise content management systems can send an organization’s budget plans through the roof. Unless, of course, you are implementing an open source enterprise cms. So the story goes.
According to open source enterprise cms provider Alfresco, they are the alternative with a scalable, easy to use platform at a fraction of the price.
We read their Total Cost of Ownership for Enterprise Content Management whitepaper. The whitepaper walks you through the licensing and hardware costs associated with several propertiery ECMs and shows how clearly open source is the more inexpensive option.
But the story of project costs is not just a tale of license price. There’s a lot more money to spend implementing an Enterprise CMS.
Jadu Bridges the ‘Skills Gap’ Between PHP and .NET
Jadu, the Web Content Management vendor, has released a product that will help bridge the gap between PHP and .NET software development languages. The company’s Phalanger PHP compiler will allow PHP applications to be compiled into the .NET framework.
This new product from Jadu will help bridge the gap between .NET, a common application framework found in corporate environments, and PHP, the most popular web programming language found on open source web services on the Internet. As a result, companies should be able to shave off application development costs.
CMIS Update – First Integration Modules Appearing
Alfresco may not have been in the original group of three Enterprise CMS vendors who developed the CMIS Specification, but they certainly are the most active when it comes to putting it to use. Today they announce a partnership with Joomlatools that demonstrates the first official integration module based on CMIS: Alfresco:Joomla!™ Integration Module.
New Security Updates for Drupal Web CMS
Drupal is at it again with another round of updated releases. While not major releases, these new versions from Drupal do address a number of security fixes and bugs that were brought to their attention via Drupal’s bug tracking system.