Alfresco Announces Alfresco Labs (Beta) 3, Open Source SharePoint Repository

Alfresco Software announced the availability of Alfresco Labs (Beta) 3. Alfresco Labs 3, formerly called Alfresco Community, offers Microsoft users greater choice by providing them with an open source fully-compatible SharePoint repository. With Alfresco Labs 3, companies can leverage existing investments in Linux and Java as well as Microsoft .NET connection software to reduce their SharePoint total cost of ownership and maximize their hardware and software investments. The Alfresco Labs 3 repository offers: Microsoft Office SharePoint protocol support requiring no additional client installation; Alfresco Surf platform for building REST-oriented web applications and collaborative web sites; RESTful API delivering content and collaboration services for customizing and developing Alfresco applications; Preview of Alfresco Share, a new social computing application; Document library which scales to over 100 million documents. Alfresco's new Surf platform is built on Alfresco Web Scripts technology, which utilizes light-weight scripting and templating. The Surf platform is designed to work in a number of different web environments, as well as a Web Part in Microsoft SharePoint Portal. It includes content oriented components designed around the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library and Adobe Flash for uploads and previewing of content and other information. The new user interface components allow for users to develop new collaborative web applications. http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Labs_3