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SixSigns announces free open source Enterprise Media Asset Management

by on March 27, 2008 in CFML, Razuna

SixSigns is announcing today that we have plans to release our Enterprise Media Asset Management (MAM) as a free open source edition (based on ColdFusion). Our MAM system has been previously deployed as a licensed system and is currently in use by over 70 organizations. Our plan has always been to release the system as a open source solution, but it only made sense since New Atlanta’s announcement of releasing BlueDragon as open source last week.

As said, we are still in the planning of the open source edition, but here is a summary:

  • The MAM system will be released under the AGPL license. The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.
  • A dual-license will be offered for customers that need it.
  • The system itself comes with a integrated Web Content Management (CMS) and can be tailored to fit any needs.
  • The current system is based on ColdFusion and the Oracle database. Currently all media assets are stored within the database and Oracle features special hooks for digital media assets. But users would have to have the Oracle database 10g R2 (at least in the standard edition one). We will change this to enable additional databases (especially MySQL) to really offer a complete open source solution (our system, Blue Dragon J2EE and database).
  • We will offer and provide different support packages to give organizations the level of support that they need.
  • We are planning to release the open source edition in about two month. As said we are rebuilding some parts of it to support different databases (thus rewriting search, indexing and handling of media assets) and have to rewrite some other code to suite BlueDragon’s CFML support.
  • BlueDragon J2EE edition will be released as a virtual image (VMWare), thus we will offer a fully installed version of our system on top of the virtual image as a free download as well.

We are in the middle of building a new website for the open source system and will make some more announcements on this blog in the near future. If you do have any questions or comments please leave a comment here.

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BlueDragon Open Source – Launch Date Announced

by on March 25, 2008 in CFML

Alan Williamson posted today that the New Atlanta will be doing the first ever code drop for the BlueDragon J2EE open source edition on the 3rd of May at the upcoming cf.Objective() conference.

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CFML goes mobile with Blue Dragon Open Source

by on March 19, 2008 in CFML

Wow, I think this post is very good and big news to the CF community. On top of last weeks announcement that the Blue Dragon J2EE Edition will go open source, today Alan Williamson posted that with iJetty together with Google Android would allow to run the Blue Dragon on top of your mobile phone.

According to Alan: “This basically means, that we will be able to produce a version of BlueDragon that will be able to utilise this platform and to cut a long story short, your CFML apps are now mobile!”

I think next to Adobe AIR, this is the next great thing to come.

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Blue Dragon J2EE Open Source Edition difference

by on March 14, 2008 in CFML, Razuna

Ny now, most of the people heard about New Atlanta’s “soon to be released” Open Source release of the Blue Dragon J2EE Edition. Actually we are very excited about it, as we are soon going to announce one of our major products to be released as Open Source as well.

A lot of people have wondered what will not be included in the Open Source Edition and Vince Bonfanti has now released a statement which outlines the major changes of the commercial edition and the Open Source edition. Here is the statement:

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There will be three differences between the commericial and open source editions of BlueDragon/J2EE:

1) The JTurbo JDBC driver for Microsoft SQL Server will not be included with the open source edition. JTurbo is a commercial product of New Atlanta’s that we are choosing not to release as open source. However, we plan to add support for Microsoft’s free JDBC driver for SQL Server (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/aa937724.aspx) so there should be no loss of functionality for the open source edition.

2) The CFDOCUMENT implementation is based on commercial libraries from ICEsoft Technologies Inc. (http://www.icesoft.com/) that cannot be included with the open source BD edition. We are investigating whether it will be possible to keep the “hooks” for the ICEsoft libraries in the open source BD edition, and then allow customers to purchase the libraries for ICEsoft if they need this feature.

3) The BD admin console contains New Atlanta trademarks and copyrighted material for which we do not wish to relinquish our intellectual property rights (for similar reasons that RedHat removes its trademarks and copyrighted material from Fedora). Therefore, the open source BD edition will not include the existing admin console and will need to be configured by editing the XML configuration file (bluedragon.xml). We expect that one of the first tasks identified by the BD open source steering committee will be the creation of a new admin console (but maybe not, hand-editing configuration files is pretty standard in the open source world). Certainly we’ll need to provide documentation on how to edit bluedragon.xml.

That’s it. Those will be the only three differences between the open source and commercial editions of BD/J2EE.

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One thing I don’t understand is how the Admin Console (point 3) has anything to do with open source or not. Hie example of RedHat/Fedora is valid, but in doing so RedHat is not “downgrading” Fedora in any way compared to the RedHat offering. Of course, changing values in a XML configuration file is no big deal, especially for a Server component (Apache, anyone:-) ), but still it would be nice to have a nice click and point admin interface.

Other then that, we are very much looking forward to the offering and have already started adjusting all of our applications to fit the Blue Dragon server one.

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