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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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Flash/Flex Remoting with OpenBD

by on July 4, 2008 in CFML

Matt Woodward (who becomes my screencast hero) has put together a screencast on how to setup Flash/Flex remoting with OpenBD. (Tip: Watch this in full screen HD)

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Adobe Air beta 3, Flex 3 beta 3 and Brio beta

by on December 13, 2007 in Uncategorized

Look at this, Adobe AIR beta 3 and Flex 3 beta 3 are now available.

In case you have been living in the bushes Adobe Flex is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems. On the other hand, Adobe AIR lets developers use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

And we got BRIO beta. Brio is a web meeting service built with collaboration in mind for individual professionals and small businesses. With Brio, you can instantly communicate and collaborate through an easy-to-use, easy-to-access online personal meeting room. Built on Adobe's Flash platform, Brio operates inside most popular web browsers, so you can start a meeting without worrying if others have a compatible system or the right software.

Very cool stuff. Nowadays there is no way around Adobe if you engage in serious online application building! (No we don't work for Adobe but are avid fans of their technologies)

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Flex and ColdFusion 8 on Leopard

by on November 8, 2007 in CFML

Ok, we might get this totally wrong and it might look like we don't know what we are doing, so any help is appreciated but….

Like many others we upgraded to 10.5 Leopard and had some problems with ColdFusion. After reinstalling ColdFusion 8 but with the Multi Server (JRun) option it does work.

Then we installed the Flex Builder 2 or 3. All fine so far.

But the real problem is we CAN NOT connect to ColdFusion in any way we have tried. Like when one creates a new Flex-Project we get to choose to connect to ColdFusion with Flash Remoting. Then can enter the ColdFusion Server. Since we don't have the build it one, we enter the root path and the URL (http://localhost) but then get the message "Invalid root. A config file must exist in WEB-INF/flex."…….

So, what to do? We tried about everything but could not get it to work. Any help very much appreciated.

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