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Alfresco to do open-source Web content management

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Alfresco next week will release a preview of a Web content management product, filling out its open-source content management line.

The company, founded by ex-Documentum employees, currently offers document management, records management, and image archiving through a partnership.

Alfresco employed a group of ex-Interwoven people who designed and built its Web content management software, said Ian Howells, chief marketing officer of Alfresco.

Called Alfresco Web Content Management, the final product will be generally available by the end of the year, he said.

The software is designed for to run large-scale Web sites and handle multi-site transactions. It is standards based and runs on Java application servers, Howells said.

Next year, Alfresco intends to offer Web 2.0-style features by using more AJAX programming and to ease collaboration among users, he added.

The company is adding REST-style interfaces to allow people to easily build "mashups" between an Alfresco Web content management server and other publicly available Web sites, such Google Maps, Howells said.