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Alfresco Launches Content Collaboration for JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform


December 5, 2007; 06:26 AM
LONDON, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in
open source enterprise content management (ECM), today announced the
availability of an integrated Red Hat-Alfresco Team Collaboration Solution
for small and medium businesses (SMBs) requiring collaboration, simplified
information sharing and content management. The joint solution, which is
available exclusively from Red Hat Exchange (RHX), delivers Alfresco
Enterprise Social Computing Platform capabilities via Red Hat's JBoss
Enterprise Portal Platform, and brings a comprehensive open source
collaboration alternative to a marketplace dominated by high-priced
proprietary software.

    Team Collaboration Solution offers an affordable solution for
organizations that want to get up and running quickly with portals that
deliver rich content services and mashups to their constituents.
Pre-integrated and certified on a complete Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/JBoss
Enterprise Middleware stack, this offering combines Red Hat's
standards-compliant JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform with Alfresco's
Enterprise Social Computing Platform in a single package, delivered via an
annual Red Hat subscription.

    "Alfresco's integration with Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform
provides SMB users access to Alfresco's powerful ECM capabilities, such as
portal-based mashup of content from both internal and external sources,"
said John Newton, CTO and co-founder, Alfresco Software. "With Red Hat's
proven enterprise-class support and technology platform, business users can
now benefit from the flexibility of an open source stack to create new ways
of working together."

    Companies can use the Red Hat-Alfresco solution to build
information-rich portals for employees, or extranets for customers and
partners. They can further extend their portals with out-of-the-box JSR-168
compliant portlets for provisioning content collaboration, document
management and Web content management services directly within the portal
environment. A rich, lightweight, JavaScript-based extension framework (Web
Scripts) allows users to readily download any of Alfresco's managed content
or content services directly into a portal page.

    "The ability to connect people, processes and information together has
powerful implications for improved collaboration, business efficiency and
better business intelligence," said Pierre Fricke, director of product line
management for JBoss Portal and SOA products at Red Hat. "The time has come
for an open source solution that tackles this major pain point for small
and medium-sized companies. We've joined with Alfresco to deliver Team
Collaboration Solution to help organizations collaborate effectively
without the steep price point."

    Team Collaboration Solution supports sharing of content via Web
2.0-inspired social computing, and extends Red Hat's JBoss Portal and
Alfresco's ECM standalone offerings with the following new capabilities:



    *  Pre-built ECM Portlets
       -  My Spaces portlet for enterprise document management and
          collaboration within the context of any portal deployment
       -  My Documents portlet for provisioning any library of documents or
          digital assets within any portal page
       -  My Web Forms portlet for enabling easy publishing of reusable
          content
       -  My Web Files portlet for managing in-progress changes to any Web
          site

    *  Pre-built Team Collaboration Portlets - Out-of-the-box integration with
       team blog, wiki and forum components

    *  Knowledge Worker Collaboration and Rules - Team Workspaces for
       collaboration, and Content Rules for automated processing of business
       documents and digital assets

    *  Choice with No Tie-In - Flexibility of an open source stack
    Availability

    Subscription support for the Red Hat/Alfresco Team Collaboration
Solution is available immediately from Red Hat Exchange. For more
information, visit http://rhx.redhat.com.

    About Alfresco Software, Inc.

    Alfresco Software Inc., is the first and leading open source
alternative for enterprise content management. It is the first company 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, visit http://www.alfresco.com.

    About Red Hat, Inc.

    Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning the
globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software for
four consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red
Hat provides high-quality, low-cost technology with its operating system
platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management
and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss
Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and
consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more:
http://www.redhat.com.

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