Alfresco lab 3 is introduced with a lot of publicity. On almost every IT website, you could read this announcement. With this version Alfresco tries to be the open source alternative for SharePoint. Last months it was clear that Alfresco took another (short-term) strategy. They’re lowering their document management efforts and were more focusing on team/cross-team collaborations, project sites,…
I’ve heard a lot of concerns about this. Many people are concerned that alfresco will abandon his document management route and will keep fully focusing on the “SharePoint” market segment.
I personally don’t think this is the case. Of course, the new release took a lot of effort and time. That’s probably the reason why they didn’t expand their document management features lately. But I’m pretty sure (and certainly hope) they’ll start doing this again when they’ve build their current major DM features in their new web client.
I think their biggest challenge will be combining/integrating enterprise document management with team/cross-team collaboration. If they can achieve this, I’m sure Alfresco will become the document collaboration/management system to compare with.
What do you think of it?
