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Alfresco Named One of Emerging Elite Winners at Open Source Business Conference

Nov 9, 2005
Group of Leading Enterprise Class Open Source Leaders Emerging

LONDON November 9th, 2005 Alfresco, Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that it has been named one of the Emerging Elite winners at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in Boston. Previous winners include SugarCRM and BitTorrent. This award reflects a growing agreement in the software industry that open source is having a major impact in enterprise architectures with over $400m being invested in open source companies in the last 18 months. The move started with Linux and has now moved up the stack to the relational database system, application server and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) layers. A group of enterprise class open source leaders is emerging in each of these areas to offer an open source alternative to traditional vendors.

“We see Enterprise Content Management as a key driver for corporate database adoption,” said Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing for MySQL AB. “MySQL Network and Alfresco are a great combination as an open source alternative to traditional enterprise database software”.

Customers cite a dramatic reduction in cost, Alfresco's ground breaking architecture coupled with open source technologies, and ease-of-use as key drivers in their decision.

“Our 15 years experience in building enterprise-class content management systems put us in a unique position to deliver open source enterprise content management”, said Dr. Ian Howells, chief marketing officer, Alfresco. “This award is both a reflection of the recognition of open source as a mature technology and the emergence of enterprise class solutions”.

Media Contacts:
Ian Howells
Alfresco
+44 1628 860 639
press@alfresco.org

Chuck Tanowitz
Schwartz Communications
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alfresco@schwartz-pr.com