SharePoint versus Alfresco

Published 01 June 08 11:15 PM | dwalker

Sahil Malik has a great response to this CNET Post (Forget file formats. The battle is Sharepoint) in his blog post: CNET - please do your research before opening your big mouth!

I also find it very amusing that the post is date May 21, 2008. I KNOW I have seen this exact same article posted roughly six months ago. I'm still looking for it. Could CNET actually went so far as to just change the date to recycle this crap? I know this for a fact, because I had never heard of Alfresco until the article that was either the exact same article or "disclaimer" by another Alfresco employee.

It's so funny considering Alfresco has some pretty steep licensing fees. I came across this site which had a really good comparison between SharePoint and Alfresco - Microsoft SharePoint VS Alfresco - Part 1 and Part 2.

The main thing to keep in mind when evaluating a CMS solution for your enterprise is to get your information from a reputable source. Better yet, get the products, in trial edition form at least, and do your own comparison.

Obviously, we have to watch for disinformation as it appears from this article that CNET is helping to spread. Alfresco must be getting desperate?

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Filed under: Alfresco, CMS, MOSS, SharePoint, CNET

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# Computer Consulting Kit Preview Blog/Joshua Feinberg said on June 10, 2008 5:35 PM:: It’s amazing to me how many people not only recycle but also blatantly steal content and repost it again and again. Many think that it won’t be recognized if they don’t use any formatting or change the title slightly. Others think that if they give the original author credit it takes away from the frustration of having it be a re-post. I know I’m constantly finding my articles and blog entries in different incantations littered across the Internet. Not only does it become unhelpful to people actually searching for valuable content online, but it also can hurt the credibility of not only obviously the person re-posting but also the person that originally wrote the article. Thanks to the freedom the Internet has provided (and the abuses it encourages from people that are just trying to get search rankings up or get their name noticed instead of providing useful information), we pretty much just have to put up with the more benign cases. Otherwise I think we’d all spend all day fighting it and not get any real work done! But, I'm with you ... and I guess we should all just be wary of imitations and continue to do our research, and do it well.

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David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.

His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.

After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.

Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.

He is the current President of the Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.