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As vice president of business development at open source enterprise content management vendor Alfresco, Matt Asay is well-versed in the challenges open source projects face in capitalizing on today's business opportunities. Here's how Asay sees the open source movement evolving.

11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Local enterprises are taking advantage of a low barrier to entry into content management with the open source Alfresco ECM system for a range of new projects - from records keeping to image hosting.

When last surveying open source Web CMSes (content management systems) I provided some common-sense advice. For example, it's important to look for not just functionality but also frequent updates, a healthy user community, and the availability of professional support. Some points are still true today, but new offerings may get you rethinking the role of these products in your enterprise.

A completely new kind of approach to innovation is required to ensure EMC doesn't lose its way as storage needs grow and change, in light of companies' adopting Web 2.0 applications, service-oriented architectures and software-as-a-service offerings.

Google is developing an open source architecture to improve its Search Appliance's ability to index data in content and document management systems and collaboration platforms.

Oracle has shipped the first major upgrade to the stand-alone enterprise search software it debuted last year emphasizing new links to third-party data sources and identity management systems.

SpikeSource, the open-source services company, has launched itself in Europe, offering customers a range of software applications.

The enterprise edition of Alfresco Software's content management application is now completely open source, as part of its effort to compete with commercial vendors, the company announced Tuesday.

StreamServe, helmed by the former second-in-command at Novell, has announced its software now supports Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9. The move is part of StreamServe's revamping of its image put in place since the Novell executive joined the company in April and a way to garner more business, particularly in Europe.

Businesses and organizations investigating free enterprise software platforms might want to keep an eye on Alfresco, an emerging open source software company.