Profile: John Newton
John Newton, CTO and Chairman of Alfresco.org, has had one of the longest and most influential careers in content management.
In 1990, John co-founded, designed and led the development of Documentum, the leader in content management recently acquired by EMC.
For the next ten years, he invented many of the concepts widely used in the industry today. In addition, he built Documentum's marketing and professional services organizations in Europe.
John has also been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital.
John was one of the founding engineers at Ingres where he helped develop the world's first commercial relational database.
John graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Presentation: Comparing Closed-Source and Open-Source Content Management Development
Wednesday, November 9th, 16.00
Track: Technology
This presentation compares the process of developing, marketing and supporting open-source and closed-source content management systems. Having developed both Documentum and Alfresco, an open source content management system, John is uniquely placed to compare the two methodologies of product change and development.
What are the differences in how products are conceived and developed? What role do users play in the development and refinement of content management systems? What are the ultimate benefits of both to users, system administrators and the business?
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Panel: Intranet track
Wednesday, November 9th, 14.30
Panel: Project Management track
Thursday, November 10th, 14.30
Panel: Strategy track
Thursday, November 10th, 16.00
Links
BusinessWire: Alfresco Releases First Open Source Enterprise Content Management Solution (October 31st, 2005)
Intranet Journal: What's the Buzz About Alfresco? (October 19th, 2005)
CNET News.com: Open-source ECM tool nears release (October 12th, 2005)
InformationWeek: Open-Source Exuberance (July 11th, 2005)
InformationWeek: Experience Distinguishes Open-Source Content-Management Launch (June 21st, 2005)
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