Creator of Apache to Deliver Keynote Speech On 'The Threat of Microsoft
SharePoint to Open Source'
LONDON, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfresco Software, Inc., the first and
leading provider of open source enterprise content management solutions,
today announced that open source guru Brian Behlendorf will be keynote
speaker at the inaugural Alfresco North American Community Conference in
New York, on Wednesday, November 7, 2007. His presentation, "The Threat of
Microsoft SharePoint to Open Source," will take place at 10 a.m. ET.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071023/AQTU012)
Behlendorf is a technologist, computer programmer and an important
figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of
the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the
Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the
Apache Software Foundation.
Behlendorf is currently on the board of directors of CollabNet, a
company he co-founded with O'Reilly & Associates (now O'Reilly Media) in
1999 to develop tools for enabling collaborative, distributed software
development. CollabNet is also the primary corporate sponsor of Subversion,
an open source version control system.
The Alfresco North American Community Conference is a one-day event
designed to promote a continuous exchange of information, ideas and product
plans between the Alfresco Community and the Alfresco Product Development
team. A separate Alfresco European Community Conference will take place in
Paris on November 15, 2007.
Attendees at both conferences will have the opportunity to participate
in roadmap reviews, prioritization, and design discussions and learn from
implementation and best practice case studies delivered by Alfresco
customers.
To register for either of these Community Conference events, please
visit the Alfresco Web site at
http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2007/community_conference_1107.jsp
To download Alfresco, please visit
http://www.alfresco.com/products/ecm/enttrial/.
About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content
management. It was the first to bring the power of open source to the
enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a
much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a
team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of
Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell,
Alfresco is based in London. For more information, please visit
http://www.alfresco.com.
Media Contacts:
Ian Howells
Alfresco Software Inc.
+44 1628 860500
press@alfresco.org
Patricia Colby
Page One PR for Alfresco Software, Inc.
415-875-7494
patricia@pageonepr.com
SOURCE Alfresco Software, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Ian Howells of Alfresco Software Inc., +44
1628 860500, press@alfresco.org; or Patricia Colby of Page One
PR, +1-415-875-7494, patricia@pageonepr.com, for Alfresco
Software, Inc.
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