“Alfresco launched last year with a bang (big-name executives
from Documentum and Business Objects starting it; funding from
tier-one venture capital firm Accel; etc.), and then went silent.
It now seems clear that the company wasn’t in hibernation, but was
instead doing what the good open source companies do: building an
innovative, killer product…“John Newton, CTO and chairman of Alfresco, says that tackling
content management with open source technology isn’t new, but most
of the open source offerings available today target web
content.