We just realized that one of our videos that shows how you get Razuna open source Digital Asset Management up and running under Ubuntu never made it to this blog.
So here it is, screen cast on how to run Razuna on Ubuntu (you can also watch this Video on Vimeo).
As of immediately, Razuna is available as a virtual server image for Amacon EC2, VMWare, Xen, Parallels, KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and VirtualIron. With this offering, you can deploy one of the most used open source Digital Asset Management System, within minutes in your environment.
But the Razuna Virtual Server Image is not just a virtual image you can download. We have gone a step further and have teamed up with the fine people at Elastic Server. With their service you are able to build your own Razuna Virtual Server on your choice of Operating System (Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 8.04 and Daisy Linux available for now), add additional applications (MySQL, Apache, etc.) and configure your hardware, like available RAM, Hard Disk size and Network settings. Once done, your individual Razuna Virtual Server Image will be build and made available for download.
Actually, it has never been easier to deploy any Digital Asset Management System before. Try it now, head over to the Razuna download page and configure your own Razuna Virtual Server Image.
About Elastic Server
CohesiveFT (the people behind Elastic Server) is the leader in automated software assembly and a complement to virtualization and cloud computing solutions. The Elastic Server® platform is a web-based “factory” for assembling, testing, and deploying custom stacks and servers to virtual machines or clouds. These custom Elastic Servers can be comprised of open source, third-party or proprietary software components from multiple vendors, saved as templates, updated, augmented, or redeployed in minutes. Made-to-order application stacks mean faster assembly and limitless configurations.
About Razuna
Razuna is a enterprise digital asset management/media asset management with an integrated web content management that delivers and makes management of your digital assets a simple task! By using Razuna you get the benefit of it being free and open source and supported by a professional company.
With Razuna, your information can be collected, consolidated, verified, filtered, mined and always be available and secure. Razuna does all this while requiring less hardware and fewer administrators, for the lowest overall cost of ownership. A powerful solution like Razuna will achieve significant efficiency gains as well as consistency throughout the organization.
Since Razuna is based on open standards (J2EE/CFML/SQL/XML) you can rest assured that Razuna can scale with your business. For international organizations that hold already thousands of assets, Razuna can take up on your existing assets with powerful import and export tools.
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.
