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Razuna 1.1.4 is here

by on February 20, 2009 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

razuna_logo_200We are happy to announce the official release of Razuna 1.1.4, another fine release of the already much hyped open source Digital Asset Management. Razuna makes it easy for any individual, small firm or big organization to manage all aspects of Digital Assets in a totally hassle free environment.

Razuna 1.1.4 brings the following new features to the already existing features;

Folder Permissions
A folder can now be owned by a user only. Previously, you had to share a folder with the “Everyone” group. Now, you can simply uncheck the “Everyone” group and the folder will only be accessible to you. Others will not see the folder and all assets within are protected. Also, assets can not be found with the search once they are in a user protected folder. We also fixed an issue with inheritance of folder permissions.

Internet Explorer Compatible
It’s not always easy to develop for all platforms and all browsers alike. Even thought we only use CSS and Javascript, there are sometimes browser platform issues that can not be overcome easily. Razuna 1.1.4 is now compatible with IE 7 & 8. Whereas Razuna acts and looks much better with IE8 then IE7 (don’t turn on Compatible mode, that thing makes it worse)…

Performance Improvements
Due to a new version of the Application Server and its new feature to cache Javascript, CSS files and certain parts of Razuna, the new version is magnitudes faster. But we not only improved the loading of Razuna, but also streamlined our code much more. You can see an immediate effect of this new performance by uploading your assets. Assets are now uploaded in the back and you will be notified by eMail of the upload process, respectively when the assets has been uploaded to the server.

Miscellaneous
Our international users will be happy to see that Razuna can now search words with foreign characters (like German umlauts and Norwegian characters) correctly. You can now upload your own logo and it will be shown everywhere instead of the default Razuna logo. User timeouts are handled correctly and we made a couple of subtle design changes.

As always you can download Razuna 1.1.4 over at the Razuna download page. Users of Razuna 1.1.3 will get notified within the system. Upgrading to the new version is outlined over at the Razuna Wiki (it is a simple step and only takes about 5 minutes).

Did you know that you can deploy Razuna to your favorite virtual environment? With our Razuna Virtual Server Image you can deploy to Amazon EC2, VMWare (also Server and ESX(i)), Parallels, XEN, VirtualIron, etc. Simply head over to the dedicated Razuna Virtual Server page and build your own Virtual Server. You’ll literally be up and running within minutes. Deployment of a Digital Asset Management has never been easier.

If you need help you can join the growing Razuna Customer Community, especially companies can enjoy a hassle free Digital Asset Management deployment with our Support Subscription.

Last but not least, we would like to thank our Community for putting forward requests and helping us to make Razuna the best open source Digital Asset Management offering.

Thank you for using Razuna.

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What the Open Source Barometer tells us

by on November 12, 2008 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

Alfresco, a company that publishes a open source ECM, does also feature a Open Source Barometer over at http://www.opensourcebarometer.org. According to their own saying; “The Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey is the largest open source enterprise infrastructure/stack survey. The third global survey covers data provided by over 25,000 of Alfresco’s 74,000 community members during the period of April to September 2008. “.

Since the Barometer shows us a door into the Enterprise open source usage what can we learn from it?

For Operating System we see that RedHat and Ubuntu are the clear leaders for Linux deployment. Look at how much Ubuntu has caught up. Ubuntu is not as long in the business as RedHat and I hear a lot of people taking on the Ubuntu Server. Looks like RedHat has to be on the look out. A obvious thing is that most will develop and test on Windows, but will deploy on Linux.

We see that Tomcat is still the most used Application Server, as it is our choice of server with Razuna, our very own open source Digital Asset Management, with over 67% compared to JBoss with 17%. The choice of database is with most the famous MySQL, followed by Oracle.

Thought that with the recent 10 million download for OpenOffice we see that MS Office is still the most used business application and despite the growing numbers of XEN marketing VMware is still the choice for most businesses to deploy Virtualization on.

One thing that really stood out for me is that Open Source is really at the “Long Tail”, that most businesses will go with a mixed stack (Open Source and proprietary software) and that Microsoft will have a impact on the Enterprise world and the Open Source community with their aggressive partnership. One thing I can tell from my own experience at a recent BizSpark introduction event is that MS will make inroads with a lot of businesses and startups.

A big thing for RIA and Adobe Flex is that 24% of the 25000 questioned community members take to Flex, that is second after 52% on Ajax and way ahead of the 8% of MS Silverlight.

Open Source Barometer III (Nov08)

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