Comments on: Yet another reason to love Open Source Content Management http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/08/04/1027 Jeff Potts on ECM, portals, search, collaboration, and a bunch of personal stuff Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kevin Cochrane http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/08/04/1027/comment-page-1#comment-40741 Kevin Cochrane Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:35:15 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1027#comment-40741 The CRX download can be found here: http://www.day.com/content/day/en/products/crx/download/registration.html (NOTE: This is only for our ECM platform. This is not for our WCM/DAM/SoCo suite) Our webcast highlighting Amazon deployment can be found here: http://www.day.com/content/day/en/registration/discover/library.html Let us know if any questions! The CRX download can be found here:

http://www.day.com/content/day/en/products/crx/download/registration.html

(NOTE: This is only for our ECM platform. This is not for our WCM/DAM/SoCo suite)

Our webcast highlighting Amazon deployment can be found here:

http://www.day.com/content/day/en/registration/discover/library.html

Let us know if any questions!

]]> By: Scott http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/08/04/1027/comment-page-1#comment-40726 Scott Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:31:45 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1027#comment-40726 Kevin, where do I get the 100MB package from Day that gives me "Double-click install … and run. Nothing to set up, nothing to configure, nothing to install and no hardward if deploy using CURL commands to AWS"? Kevin, where do I get the 100MB package from Day that gives me “Double-click install … and run. Nothing to set up, nothing to configure, nothing to install and no hardward if deploy using CURL commands to AWS”?

]]> By: Kevin Cochrane http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/08/04/1027/comment-page-1#comment-40145 Kevin Cochrane Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:21:04 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1027#comment-40145 For customers looking for massive scalability, there's a few additional items to consider other than raw performance data of the underlying Jackrabbit repository implementation. Massively scalable sites also require simple high-availability (for fail-over), simple on-demand clustering, including heterogeneous clustering across on-site instances and cloud-hosted instances, and support for elastic storage and asset handling of discrete content items (a SKU, for example) and large binary assets (for example, a raw TIFF with multiple renditions for web-ready assets to be used in an eCommerce site). Also, simple on-demand hot back-up and disaster recovery also come into play for truly scalable deployments (if backups and disaster recovery cannot be simply managed in a scalable deployment, the deployment IMHO isn't really scalable). CRX is the enterprise version of Jackrabbit that "adds" simple high-availability, clustering (on-site, cloud-based, or a combo for on-demand peak load handling), optimized large binary handling, simple hot-backup and disaster recovery. It is also thoroughly put through the paces for both performance and scalability - supported billions of content objects handily without degradation in system performance. At Day, we sell our enterprise-ready version of Jackrabbit (plus Sling, Felix, Lucene, etc.) - CRX. That is the version that we thoroughly test to ensure that it is the highest-performance and most scalable JCR implementation. Of course, CRX's core is the base Jackrabbit repo implementation (currently 1.4, migrating to the new JSR-283-compliant 1.6+ later in the year). Hope that helps. And yes, CRX is free for developers and can be downloaded and installed in minutes for you to test all of the above very quickly (I suggest the online screencasts to learn how to use the GUI for things like clustering, back-up, and disaster recovery, or just explore as it's relatively simple to discover). Kevin Cochrane CMO, Day Software For customers looking for massive scalability, there’s a few additional items to consider other than raw performance data of the underlying Jackrabbit repository implementation. Massively scalable sites also require simple high-availability (for fail-over), simple on-demand clustering, including heterogeneous clustering across on-site instances and cloud-hosted instances, and support for elastic storage and asset handling of discrete content items (a SKU, for example) and large binary assets (for example, a raw TIFF with multiple renditions for web-ready assets to be used in an eCommerce site). Also, simple on-demand hot back-up and disaster recovery also come into play for truly scalable deployments (if backups and disaster recovery cannot be simply managed in a scalable deployment, the deployment IMHO isn’t really scalable).

CRX is the enterprise version of Jackrabbit that “adds” simple high-availability, clustering (on-site, cloud-based, or a combo for on-demand peak load handling), optimized large binary handling, simple hot-backup and disaster recovery. It is also thoroughly put through the paces for both performance and scalability – supported billions of content objects handily without degradation in system performance.

At Day, we sell our enterprise-ready version of Jackrabbit (plus Sling, Felix, Lucene, etc.) – CRX. That is the version that we thoroughly test to ensure that it is the highest-performance and most scalable JCR implementation. Of course, CRX’s core is the base Jackrabbit repo implementation (currently 1.4, migrating to the new JSR-283-compliant 1.6+ later in the year).

Hope that helps. And yes, CRX is free for developers and can be downloaded and installed in minutes for you to test all of the above very quickly (I suggest the online screencasts to learn how to use the GUI for things like clustering, back-up, and disaster recovery, or just explore as it’s relatively simple to discover).

Kevin Cochrane
CMO, Day Software

]]> By: ukdavo http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/08/04/1027/comment-page-1#comment-40065 ukdavo Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:16:51 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1027#comment-40065 Kevin - How well does Jackrabbit scale? Just wondering as the one criticism that I've read is that it doesn't compare with DCTM re scalability, etc. Apologies if this is untrue but I've never been hands on with Jackrabbit. Regards Kevin – How well does Jackrabbit scale? Just wondering as the one criticism that I’ve read is that it doesn’t compare with DCTM re scalability, etc. Apologies if this is untrue but I’ve never been hands on with Jackrabbit.

Regards

]]> By: Kevin Cochrane http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/08/04/1027/comment-page-1#comment-39942 Kevin Cochrane Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:29:14 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1027#comment-39942 Of course, for a 100MB package from Day you get: * WCM * DAM * Social Collaboration * Apache Jackrabbit * Apache Sling * Apache Felix * Apache Pluto * Apache Shindig * Apache Lucene * Apache Tikka * Apache FOP ... and a complete servlet engine and integrated repo. Double-click install ... and run. Nothing to set up, nothing to configure, nothing to install and no hardward if deploy using CURL commands to AWS. Also runs in 64MB heap space. No kidding. Kevin Of course, for a 100MB package from Day you get:

* WCM
* DAM
* Social Collaboration
* Apache Jackrabbit
* Apache Sling
* Apache Felix
* Apache Pluto
* Apache Shindig
* Apache Lucene
* Apache Tikka
* Apache FOP

… and a complete servlet engine and integrated repo. Double-click install … and run. Nothing to set up, nothing to configure, nothing to install and no hardward if deploy using CURL commands to AWS.

Also runs in 64MB heap space. No kidding.

Kevin

]]> By: Links 06/08/2009: KDE 4.3 Review, Android Spreads | Boycott Novell http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/08/04/1027/comment-page-1#comment-39649 Links 06/08/2009: KDE 4.3 Review, Android Spreads | Boycott Novell Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:29:26 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1027#comment-39649 [...] Yet another reason to love Open Source Content Management Open source ECM technologies like Alfresco, Drupal, Liferay, Lucene, and many others, are now at or beyond their closed source equivalents. If you are a developer who’s sick of the shackles closed source CMS places on you, why not suggest exploring open source alternatives? [...] [...] Yet another reason to love Open Source Content Management Open source ECM technologies like Alfresco, Drupal, Liferay, Lucene, and many others, are now at or beyond their closed source equivalents. If you are a developer who’s sick of the shackles closed source CMS places on you, why not suggest exploring open source alternatives? [...]

]]> By: Jan Pfitzner http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/08/04/1027/comment-page-1#comment-39576 Jan Pfitzner Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:57:21 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1027#comment-39576 I was a DCTM Developer before claiming on the alfresco train. I absolutly share your & Laurence opinion. The only thing i miss in alfresco is dql! But alfresco is doing their homework! I was a DCTM Developer before claiming on the alfresco train. I absolutly share your & Laurence opinion.
The only thing i miss in alfresco is dql!
But alfresco is doing their homework!

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]]> By: jpotts http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/08/04/1027/comment-page-1#comment-39538 jpotts Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:01:41 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1027#comment-39538 Jerry, Thanks for the comment! As I mentioned, I'm not taking anything away from what Laurence said. Anything that makes Documentum developers' lives easier is great and not everyone can choose to use an open source alternative to Documentum. The point of my post was that as I read Laurence's, it conjured up memories of what a headache it could be working with Documentum as a developer, and how much easier it is when working with open source CMS. I'm glad EMC is making improvements to its developer tools. As Laurence mentioned, it is long past due. But Documentum (and other closed source ECM providers) have a long way to go yet. Jeff Jerry,

Thanks for the comment! As I mentioned, I’m not taking anything away from what Laurence said. Anything that makes Documentum developers’ lives easier is great and not everyone can choose to use an open source alternative to Documentum.

The point of my post was that as I read Laurence’s, it conjured up memories of what a headache it could be working with Documentum as a developer, and how much easier it is when working with open source CMS.

I’m glad EMC is making improvements to its developer tools. As Laurence mentioned, it is long past due. But Documentum (and other closed source ECM providers) have a long way to go yet.

Jeff

]]> By: Jerry Silver http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/08/04/1027/comment-page-1#comment-39536 Jerry Silver Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:49:06 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1027#comment-39536 To set the record straight, part of Lawrence Hart's post is to point out that the Documentum Developer Edition is *free*. You've quoted him completely out of context. Developers don't have to pay to get the software, and there is excellent support provided via the Documentum Developer Community at http://developer.emc.com/documentum. Your comments on choice also misrepresent the post and the product. It's unlikely that you'll find too many systems with the same flexibility and choice that you'll get in Documentum. To simplify the install, the Developer Edition has a number of preset options; as Lawrence says "Very cool for those Developers that just want Documentum to work and don’t care about the details...I could change many settings behind the scenes if I wanted since I know how, but what would be the point? I just want it to work." To set the record straight, part of Lawrence Hart’s post is to point out that the Documentum Developer Edition is *free*. You’ve quoted him completely out of context. Developers don’t have to pay to get the software, and there is excellent support provided via the Documentum Developer Community at http://developer.emc.com/documentum.

Your comments on choice also misrepresent the post and the product. It’s unlikely that you’ll find too many systems with the same flexibility and choice that you’ll get in Documentum. To simplify the install, the Developer Edition has a number of preset options; as Lawrence says “Very cool for those Developers that just want Documentum to work and don’t care about the details…I could change many settings behind the scenes if I wanted since I know how, but what would be the point? I just want it to work.”

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