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ProcessMaker, Easy to Use Open Source Workflow & Business Process Management

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Brian Reale and his team at Colosa launched their very cool ProcessMaker product this week. ProcessMaker is a commercial open source Workflow / Business Process Management (BPM) software tool designed for medium-sized organizations and is designed to allow a business or process expert with no programming experience to model and ...

The Tyranny of Social Networking

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

So many apps, so little time... Is it possible to keep them all happy? twitter me blog doppler LinkedIn facebook

KnowledgeTree on the Mac

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

We don't yet officially support running the KnowledgeTree server on Macs due to complications around getting all of KnowledgeTree's dependancies working on OS X. In particular, OpenOffice.org's dependancy on X11 (and not native Aqua) makes putting together an easy to install, commercially supported stack quite complicated. (A native Aqua port of OpenOffice.org is ...

Data in the Cloud

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Amazon have announced the next piece of the puzzle for enterprise application cloud computing: Amazon SimpleDB, the database in the cloud. SimpleDB is a quasi-relational database accessed via web services. You can grow your datamodel and data on the fly without worrying about indexing, storage capacity etc. All the underlying ...

KnowledgeTreeLive Architecture Webinar and Storage, Language Pack Updates

Friday, November 16th, 2007

I recently participated in a webinar conducted by rPath as part of their Webinar Series. The webinar focussed on how we had built out KnowledgeTreeLive, our on-demand document management software, using Amazon's EC2 and virtual appliances. rPath have a recording of the webinar available on their website. On the subject of ...

rPath Software as a Service Webinar

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I'll be participating in a webinar tomorrow, organized by rPath, on the topic of virtual appliances and software as a service. Phil Wainewright, strategist for emerging software industry trends and author of the ZDNet Software as Services blog, will also present his perspective on virtual appliances as a route ...

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 ...

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 ...