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KnowledgeTree® Partners with Zend to Enhance Its Enterprise Grade PHP Application

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By crossroadspr - Posted on 16 September 2009

 RALEIGH, NC — September 16, 2009 — KnowledgeTree®, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provider focusing on affordable document management software that is easily installed and used by business professionals, today announced a partnership with Zend Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications.

Version 3.7 of KnowledgeTree’s on-premise commercial edition will be deployed on Zend Server, a widely accepted and used enterprise grade application server for PHP. Built to easily install and run inside a company’s firewall, KnowledgeTree provides a fast, reliable and powerful document management solution that will now receive a performance boost with Zend Server. Code acceleration and caching features ensure high performance and low resource utilization for business-critical applications like KnowledgeTree.

“Our partnership with Zend represents the coming together of two PHP players whose goal is bringing enterprise grade PHP products to the marketplace. KnowledgeTree on Zend Server delivers speed, performance, and reliability, particularly in Windows environments. In fact, early tests show response time improvements of close to 40 percent when using Zend Server, and that’s with no changes to our application,” said Philip Arkcoll, product manager, KnowledgeTree.

ocPortal and Bitnami team together for easy CMS installation

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By Bryan - Posted on 08 July 2009

Two providers of integrated solutions: ocPortal, an open-source Content Management System, and Bitnami, which makes "stacks" for easy installation of web applications, have partnered to release a "stack" for ocPortal 4.1.10. Jointly developed/tested by both companies, users of almost any background can now easily download and run ocPortal on the "big three" operating systems, Windows, Linux, and Mac.

A flexible Web CMS, ocPortal has an emphasis on building online communities, and dynamic and interactive websites. ocPortal provides features for blogging, running a forum, providing downloads, hosting galleries, serving your own databases, eCommerce, and much more. Everything is customizable, done to high standards, and easy to use.

ocPortal with the Bitnami stack installerBitnami has done a fantastic job integrating every major component (Apache, PHP, MySQL, ocPortal) seamlessly, topped off with a straightforward, intuitive installer that makes the entire process a breeze.

Bitnami's "Stacks" page showcases dozens of web-based applications. After choosing "ocPortal" and an operating system, the all-in-one installer asks for basic site info (site name, username, password, e-mail) and configures every necessary component to work properly.

Bitnami represents the next step forward in software distribution by empowering virtually anyone to utilize new web technologies on their own computers.

Bitnami for ocPortal 4.1.10 is freely available at: http://bitnami.org/stack/ocportal.

Revealing numbers from Alfresco regarding the enterprise stack

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By Bryan - Posted on 13 February 2008

Alfresco Software released a press release on the results of a survey by them intended to help determine "how companies evaluate and deploy open source and proprietary software stacks in the enterprise". There is some very interesting numbers summarized in the press release that should be of interest to not only using those Alfresco products, but to almost anyone using enterprise software. Some of the more interesting numbers and statistics pulled from the study:

  • Operating system: “Users evaluate on a Windows laptop and deploy on Linux” – 41% of evaluations were on Windows, dropping to 26% for deployments, whereas 51% of deployments were on Linux.
  • Linux: “Ubuntu and Red Hat pull away, SUSE remains flat by comparison in the US” – Ubuntu 24%, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 21%.
  • Windows: “Users stick with XP and 2003, Vista lags at 2%” – XP 63%, Windows 2003 28%.
  • Databases: “Sun still shines on MySQL” – MySQL 60%, Oracle 14%, MS SQL Server 13%.

I especially find it interesting that while open source MySQL is the dominate database used on the enterprise, two propriety database systems (Oracle and MS SQL) follow. I wonder where PostGresSQL falls on the list? But wait, there are two points I want to make about this study.

Time for a break from IT

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By Bryan - Posted on 12 August 2006

I am going to spend this next week away from the computer. Between my "day job", this site, and working on some sites for others...I have been looking at the computer screen way too much. Meanwhile, the wife and kid have been looking at the back of my head for too long. It is time to enjoy the backyard and play some ball with the "boy".

I also think I'm going to also take a break from the online ads on the far right right side of the pages you view. With Drupal, all I need to do is toggle off the blocks that contain the advertisement and then "save blocks". It's as simple as 1, 2, 3. Someone will have to tell me if they like the layout better without the ads or if it really doesn't matter. What's your perception when you see a reasonable amount of advertisements at a site compared to a site with no ads?

I do have some ideas in my head that I've been wanting to put down in writing. After a week from my technology hiatus I may consider the following topics to write about:

  • Does your choice of CMS impact how far up you rank with the various search engines? It sure does and I've seen dramatic differences between my Drupal, SMF, and Wordpress sites. Some of the search engines appear to be looking at more than just content and links.
  • IT Stacks. Believe it or not, PHP can run better on Windows than it does on Linux.
  • Some of my newbie experiences with osCommerce.
So now it's time to turn this computer off and rest my weary eyes. To everyone...have a good week!