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Razuna Desktop available now

by on July 21, 2009 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

Razuna Desktop has been built for you and your team to easily add any asset from your desktop to Razuna by simply drag and drop to the Razuna Desktop application.

We believe that Razuna Desktop is a big enhancement for any team that wants to be serious about a effective workflow and wants to make use of our open source Digital Asset Management Razuna. With Razuna Desktop adding assets to the Razuna server is a simple drag and drop operation. We developed Razuna Desktop in the hope that you and your team can be more productive.

The current version 1.0 is a starting point of many new features to come to this Desktop application. We are planning some really great features for it, like Folder browsing, retrieving assets trough Razuna Desktop and much more.

Furthermore, Razuna Desktop is a proof of concept for our Open Source Community effort and the Razuna Developer API. The application has been built by Bruce Lane, an active Razuna Community member and uses the Razuna Developer API to full extend.

You can use Razuna Desktop with your own hosted Razuna setup or with the Razuna Hosted Platform. Moreover, Razuna Desktop runs on MacOS X, Windows and Linux.

Here is also a short introduction video on Razuna Desktop.

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When Customers speak about Razuna

by on April 14, 2009 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

You know as a Open Source company you get this huge amount of downloads numbers each month, but you never really get to know all the people or know how they use the system itself. I think I can speak for the whole open source community in that way. Alone, our Open Source Digital Asset Management System Razuna has been downloaded over thousands of times in the past months.

In that regard, it is very satisfying to get feedback from real people using the system and especially when they make those comments publicly available. This just happened with the people over at the Digital Asset Management Blog. The blog is a venture of Cliffe Associates, a independent consultancy company in the UK. They were part of our beta team for our upcoming Razuna Hosted Solution and this is what they had to say about it;

We had the privilege of beta testing the system before launch and were very impressed with what we saw. All the things you would expect to see and a simple cost effective plan for upgrading storage and use. An Enterprise DAM system pay as you go, must be a winner.

You can read the whole post over at their site entitled “Digital Asset Managent for everyone”.

There is nothing else for us to say then, thank you. For those of you who are looking for a Hosted Digital Asset Management (you know, those systems that let you manage your images, videos and documents effective and let you actually do something with those digital assets) then jump over to our new Razuna SaaS Hosted Website. We’ll be launching the service real soon.

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Adobe to make their ColdFusion product open source

by on April 1, 2009 in CFML

In an unexpected move, Adobe have released their ColdFusion product to the open source community. In the associated press release Adobe stated the following reasons for the move:

“Adobe have always tried to bring a better and more capable product to the users. In recent years, however, improvements have plateaued. With the release of OpenBlueDragon and Railo Open Source there are thousands of people out there using those two products. This has made it increasingly difficult to justify the ongoing high cost of developing the ColdFusion Server on our own. In the end it’s the user who suffers.

The logical conclusion is to open up the problem and try to crowd source the server in the hope that the developer community picks it up.

We may see some teething problems at the start, but we think it will become the standard and everyone will work together to make it the best CFML server out there.”

However, some industry experts think this is just another example of Adobe trying to secure its position in the market. A source that wanted to remain anonymous said;

“Adobe has always tried to tight their customers to their ColdFusion Server offering. Some may start to question what value Adobe are adding; if they don’t control the core engine of ColdFusion server anymore; how can they make millions with open sourcing the server now?”

For Railo this move could as well mean the end of their open source offering. This has come to no better time, since Railo just released their Railo Open Source version today, the exact day that Adobe has decided to release their ColdFusion Server as open source. Might this be another move from the “giant” Adobe to control the CFML market?

Railo were contacted; and declined to comment, except to state that Railo considered the CFML server market dead and that building extensions and hosting for CFML projects were the tools of the future.

OpenBlueDragon has released a statement that they have studied the algorithm and have noted some bizarre elements; for instance is the CFDocument syntax, a feature that will create PDF documents from any web site, based on open source libraries. One might wonder, why this is so, since Adobe is the creator of PDF.

Adam Lehman, Adobe’s ColdFusion Product Manager has apparently stepped down in what the company say is a completely unrelated matter. However, inside sources say he is absolutely against the move and feels that Adobe have ‘thrown in the towel’.

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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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