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Apple has just approved the first release of our Nuxeo World 2011 companion app for general availability on the iTune App Store. Check it out here

Because we’re using the Titanium Appcelerator platform, a nice side effect is that we also have an Android version that you can download here. (It should also become available soon on the Android market).

A few screenshots to wet your appetite:

The source code for this app is a fork of the “Codestrong” project, and lives in GitHub, under the GPL license.

I was at the Open World Forum last week (which I also help organize) and had the pleasure to be interviewed by Sandro Groganz, a partner with Age Of Peers and a specialist of open source marketing.

Here me answer questions about our open source business model, about open source marketing, and about the french open source ecosystem.

Here is the video on YouTube:

The Tour de France 2011 is already over (congratulations to Cadel Evans, Mark Cavendish, Samuel Sanchez and Pierre Roland, winners of the four distinctive jerseys this year), but the Tour de Nuxeo is far from over.

Let’s move on today with a video tour of the Nuxeo DM platform. It is not too long (45 minutes overall) and will give you a pretty thorough view of what you can do with Nuxeo in terms of document management, as well as some insights on how the Nuxeo platform can be managed by systems and content administrators, and extended by developers to fit your specific business needs.

We have a dedicated page on nuxeo.com where we’ve made it easy to navigate through the differents chapters of this video tour. Or you can watch the following 7 videos in order below.

Introduction

Basic concepts

Working with content

Workflow

Publishing

Administration

Extending

I’m happy that we announced today that:

• Our Nuxeo DM packages have been accepted in the Ubuntu “Partner” repository, so that it’s even easier than before to install Nuxeo DM (and soon, other products from Nuxeo) on an Ubuntu Linux server.

• Nuxeo is now a part of Canonical’s “Software Partner Programme” and listed as a “software partner” on the Ubuntu site.

• Canonical is now listed as a partner in our own partner directory.

• More than 1/2 of our developers are using Ubuntu Linux on their main development machine, and 100% of our production servers are using either Debian or Ubuntu Linux (OK, that part was not it the official announcement, but it’s the truth .

The official Nuxeo press release is here, with a quote from a customer (Jeppesen) who is also a happy Ubuntu user.

Details on how to choose the best package … Read more

So today’s the 7th of July (7/7), and also, not so coincidentally, the day Oracle has chosen as the official day to launch Java 7.

We weren’t invited to the party, but let’s take a break anyway from our Tour de Nuxeo series to look at the 7 reasons why we’re happy to be using Java (Java 6, actually, we’re in no rush to adopt Java 7) for the Nuxeo Enterprise Content Management Platform.

7. Write once, run anywhere: it’s not a myth

We develop Nuxeo applications with confidence that the application will run on Linux, Windows and Mac OS.

Of course, we run integration tests on all three platforms just to be sure.

6. It’s fast and robust

It’s not the 90′s anymore. The JVM, with the integration of the HotSpot technology ten years ago, is now on par (i.e. only 10% to 2x slower on most … Read more

As we’ve seen in stage 1 of this Tour de Nuxeo, Nuxeo EP is a platform that implements all the major services that are expected nowadays to manage content at an enterprise scale.

In today’s stage, we’re going to dive deeper into the technology that powers the Nuxeo platform, and show how its architecture was carefully chosen to answer the common needs of our customers and user community.

However, since Thierry Delprat, our fearless CTO, has already written extensively about the Nuxeo EP architecture, let me focus here on the points that I think need to be highlighted and refer you to his writings and slides (see below) for more details.

Overview

Nuxeo EP is an open source Java platform that provides building blocks to create sophisticated and robust ECM applications:

• Core ECM services, such as: storage, lifecycle, security, audit, metadata, etc.

• High level ECM services

… Read more

This is stage 2 of the 2011 “Tour de Nuxeo“. Follow the link for the list of other stages.

“Nuxeo” is both a company and an open source project that aims at creating world-class technologies (“Nuxeo EP”) and products (“Nuxeo DM”, “Nuxeo DAM”, etc.) for Enterprise Content Management.

Nuxeo, the company

Nuxeo is a company that I founded 10 years ago, in December 2000.

Our initial mission was to create open source “Web applications for better collaboration” (this was our first motto) – collaborative intranets, e-government websites – for a market that was comprised primarily of European public administrations (including several of the major French ministries).

In 2006, we did a full rewrite of our software stack using libraries and frameworks from the mature open source Java ecosystem, and started a business model migration from service company to open source software vendor.

At the same time, we chose … Read more

This is stage 1 of the 2011 “Tour de Nuxeo“. Follow the link for the list of other stages.

Enterprises and organizations face tremendous pressure to deal with an increasing amount of content, in terms of sheer volume (petabytes and beyond), number of content items (millions to billions of documents), and number of interaction points with either human personnel (inside or outside the organization) or automated systems.

In today’s Tour de Nuxeo stage, we will have a look at the main challenges that face organizations that need to manage their content. But first, let’s start by answering a simple question: What is content?

What is content?

Content is information transmitted through a medium, which conveys a meaning to its receiver.

Web pages are content. Word documents are content. Images, movies, business forms, complex XML business documents, tweets (140 characters long text messages) are other examples of content.

According … Read more

In honor of the 2011 Tour de France which started last saturday and will last until July 24th, we’ve decided to run in parallel a three week long “Tour de Nuxeo” to present the many faces of Nuxeo: Why use it? How to get started? How to leverage its basic and advanced functionalities? Etc.

The first “stages” have been published:

• Why manage content?
• What is Nuxeo?
• The Nuxeo architecture
• A video tour of the Nuxeo DM Document Management Platform

Keep coming back for the next stages!

We’ve done yesterday a second release candidate for Nuxeo EP and DM.

You can download the packages (zip, windows installer, generic installer) here:
http://community.nuxeo.com/static/rc/nuxeo-5.4.2-RC2/

If you are running Debian or Ubuntu, you can also test it by adding:

deb http://apt.nuxeo.org/ natty releases datebased

and running apt-get install nuxeo-dm.

(You may substitute natty with maverick,squeeze`, etc. i.e. the nickname of your current Debian or Ubuntu release but it won’t change anything for now).

77 issues have been resolved between RC1 and RC2:

Now we are focussed on delivering Nuxeo 5.4.2 final next week. We have a bug day today where we will try to crush as many bugs and outstanding issues (there are currently 159 of them):

If you’d like to help, please test the RC2 today if possible and submit new bugs to the Jira.

If you are into IRC, you can join to the #nuxeo … Read more