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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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Test the OpenBD Installer

by on September 19, 2008 in CFML

Jordan Michaels, a OpenBD Steering Committee member, is inviting everyone to test out the OpenBD installer he has made. To quote him;

Many many folks have been asking for a setup that’s very similar to how CF7/CF8/BDJX are set up in that the J2EE engine is “in the background” and Apache simply processes site CFM files. This installer is hopefully a step in that direction.

For anyone who’s interested in this, I’ve got a “alpha” version of a CentOS5/RHEL5 installer here:

http://clubwheat.viviotech.net/openbd_rhel5.sh

This installer sets up isolated instances of Sun’s JRE, OpenBD, and Tomcat, specifically for the purpose of processing CFML templates.

It is meant to be run from the command-line as the root user. So…

# sh openbd_rhel5.sh

This set up configures tomcat to make OpenBD the default processor for all CFML files regardless of their host name or what directory they originate from.

There is one caveat, you will need to update the “[OpenBD InstallDir]/tomcat/server.xml” file with a new “<Host>” entry for each web site that you have listed as an Apache VirtualHost. I am in the process of writing up some documentation that will explain this in great detail, but for now, a simple host entry with just the site URL (IE:www.mysite.com) and the directory that files are coming from is all the tomcat <Host> entry will need.

I will be writing documentation, and updating the installer to be more multi-system compatible as time allows. Please let me know your experiences, and (if you dare) feel free to offer patches!

With this setup, Jordan made it possible that there is no need for a individual “bluedragon” and “WEB-INF” directory for each web application. Be sure to join the OpenBD-Discussion group and give Jordan as much feedback as possible.

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Razuna 1.1, open source digital asset management, now available

by on August 16, 2008 in Razuna

We are very happy to announce that Version 1.1 of Razuna – our open source Digital Asset Management System with integrated Web Content Management – is now available (and this on the day that Elvis died and Madonna turns 50)!

Version 1.1 features a embedded database that lets you deploy Razuna within minutes and without any additional database setup. The embedded database performs very well and holds up in production environments as well. Of course, support for the Oracle database is still given.

We also increased the speed on some asset operations and make now extensive use of the Lucene search engine. Additionally we included a Upgrade Manager, which makes upgrading to a new version a breeze. For the CMS part we updated FCKEditor to release 2.6.3 which fixes some issues that users experienced on Firefox 3.

This release of Razuna is a major leap for us, since we have now transitioned to a complete Open Source distribution, where all components used are now open sourced. For the technically inclined Razuna leverages the following open source components; OpenBD (Lucene included), Tomcat and H2 (I am going to blog some more about this database). As always, this release comes as a WAR/EAR distribution or bundled with Tomcat as a Standalone Server.

Razuna is a professional digital asset management/media asset management with an integrated web content management that delivers and makes management of your digital assets a simple task. Razuna is licensed under a dual-license (AGPL and commercial) and can be downloaded at http://www.razuna.com. The Wiki is available at http://wiki.sixsigns.com and the public Issues Tracker at http://issues.sixsigns.com (both products proudly sponsored by Atlassian (Confluence and Jira) ).

(We are aware that our forum is down right now. We should be up and running on Monday again. Thank you for all your patience.)

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Screencast on OpenBD Setup and connecting to Apache

by on July 18, 2008 in CFML

This screencast shows how to get up and running with OpenBD and Tomcat. Deploy your application and be ready to run. Also, we show how you can connect Apache to Tomcat over proxy. Instructions in written form can be found on my previous blog post.

Tip: Play the video and click on the “HD on” to watch this in full screen and HD quality!

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