“Last week Adobe surprised a few people–well, at least it
surprised me–with the announcement that it was including Alfresco
content management services as part of its LiveCycle Enterprise
Suite Update 1 package. The surprise was two-fold, that Adobe felt
it was necessary to add content management services at all and that
it chose open source vendor Alfresco as its content management
partner. I spoke to Alfresco CEO John Powell to get his perspective
on the pact and how it can help push open source into the
enterprise mainstream.“Powell is understandably excited by this arrangement and one of
the main reasons, he says is because the Adobe partnership gives
his company credibility with companies that might otherwise not
even sniff at an open source vendor…”
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