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We’ve come so far already…

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

KnowledgeTree has kept me insanely busy since we started commercializing such that this is the first bit of time I’ve had to fill everyone in on our conquests in the sales channel. We now have so many commercial customers from a multitude of industries across the globe. The learning curve ...

Integrate with the KnowledgeTree Webservice using Borland Delphi

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Bjarte Kalstveit Vebjørnsen has contributed a port of the KTWSAPI library to Borland Delphi. The KTWSAPI is an object model based on the functions exposed via the KnowledgeTree SOAP Webservice. Bjarte has created a port of the PHP KTWSAPI object model to Delphi 2006 using components from the Indy Project. His ...

Open Source in Action at the KnowledgeTree Forge

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

In a 2006 Optaros white paper (Seth Gotlieb and Sebastian Wohlrapp, 'Unleashing the Power of Open Source in Document Management'. Optaros, March 17, 2006), the authors refer to "... the state of information chaos in many organizations". Citing the opportunities for Open Source, the authors state that "... document management ...

Corratech preview OPENSUITE at LinuxWorld

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

After several harrowing interconnections I've finally made it to Barcelona. European travel in summer is no fun! Our friends at Corratech are previewing OPENSUITE at LinuxWorld next week. OPENSUITE aims to "create a pluggable, services-based framework that integrates leading open source applications through business processes to improve IT performance and reduce ...

Contemplating “Slow” Summer Sales Months

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

It's almost the end of July and what was envisaged as a "slow" sales month has been anything but. Over the last few weeks we've sold KnowledgeTree to a significant number of organizations, with many of them likely to be great, high profile case studies for commercial open source: Decathlon ...

New Website, Optaros EOS Directory and Packt Publishing Award Nominations

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

New Website and Creative Commons Licensing We finally got our fancy new website out this week thanks to our intrepid team of engineers and designers (thanks JP, Fortunate, Philip and Wireframe & Sunday Media!). Our new website and all of our documentation and marketing materials now carry a Creative Commons Attribution ...

KnowledgeTree Webservice included in 3.4 STABLE

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

3.4 STABLE is about to be released and includes the KnowledgeTree webservice. The webservice exposes key functions that exist within KnowledgeTree via SOAP so that third parties can easily integrate their applications and KnowledgeTree. The webservice is based on the ktapi object model, which wraps the internal functionality into a layer ...

Document Management In A Can: The KnowledgeTree Appliance

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

It's a rainy and cold Sunday afternoon in Cape Town and so what better to do than put some good music on and take a good look at the new KnowledgeTree Open Source Appliance. The appliance runs on technology we've licensed from rPath, a bunch of ex-Red Hat guys with ...

OSBC and the Microsoft Open Source ISV NXT Forum

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

I've recently returned from the Open Source Business Conference 2007 held in San Francisco. This year's event was impressively organized, with great speakers, panels and the like. Well done to Matt Asay and co. for a great event. A day prior to the conference, Microsoft held a forum for American Open ...

Order in ‘Chaos’

Friday, June 15th, 2007

I'm Carolyn ... the technical writer for KnowledgeTree - have been for a while now, so it's ironic that this is my first blog. I guess that's because I've been busy... busy... busy, documenting and documenting. Till now, I was a single repository type of gal - a traditional, conservative ...