Archive for October, 2009

Damien Metlzer, who's with Leroy Merlin and has been working on OpenSocial integration in Nuxeo EP, has an extensive blog post about the history of this significant contribution to the Nuxeo EP code base.

Here are, according to him, some of the benefits of contributing to Nuxeo:

• Our code is reviewed by Nuxeo Architects and well integrated in the core distribution.
• We had to make the generic code generic, and make the specific parts plugin of it.  I really think its a proof a quality and that i made us ask for the good questions.
• Apart from making the code generic, it did cost us nothing
• I think that the value of a portal is the number of app you can integrate into it. Theorically we have all iGoogle gadgets that are integrable (and that makes a lot ). I other people contribute by making "Enterprise ready gadgets" on top

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Here is a video interview of me shot by TiViPro during the recent Open World Forum un Paris.

Here is a rough transcript:

Nuxeo is the pioneer and leader of ECM. Our software is used by large companies throughout the world to help them manage all their documents and digital assets, such as images or emails.

Nuxeo is an open source vendor. That means we are developing a platform, a technology, in a completely open source and transparent way. Everyone can access our source code, make contributions and participate in our community. And we work with partners, such as systems integrators or vertical application vendors, to help them create specific applications that are used by the end users. These applications can deal with aspects such as collaboration, workflow, compliance on processes around documents. Since our technology is base on open source Java, it is very easy to set up, … Read more

Here is a video interview of Cheryl McKinnon, our recently hired Chief of Marketing, by FierceContentManagement, on how life is different in an open source ECM firm such as Nuxeo, wrt her former job at OpenText.

Original post here.

Nuxeo EP 5.3 has recently been published as a release candidate (RC), and will soon become generally available (GA).

Announcement

The full announcement, detailing the major new features in Nuxeo 5.3 wrt Nuxeo 5.2, is available on the Nuxeo corporate site.

Here is a short summary: the most notable enhancements include a new tag service, an improved import/export service, a CMIS implementation based on Apache Chemistry, performance tuning after extended… benchmarks, WSS (MS SharePoint) support, and OpenSocial widgets support.

We’ve also made 3 short videos to showcase some of the most important new features in this release.

Buzz

• TechCrunch
• CMS Wire
• Announcement on Freshmeat
• Neteco (in French)

Next steps

Remember that this a a release candidate, which should be tested as much as possible before the final (GA) release.

10 bugs have discovered so far, and are being actively exterminated by our diligent development team:

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