"Alfresco, which provides an open platform for social content management, has announced the availability of its latest version, Alfresco Community 3.4, for download. Alfresco 3.4 expands the company's open source and open standards-based content management platform with new tools and services for Spring Framework developers. Alfresco 3.4 also features Web Quick Start for easy Website deployment and content integration with enterprise portals. This builds on Alfresco's strategy of offering a content platform that delivers the flexibility and affordability required across the enterprise..."

According to the text of the announcement: "Key product capabilities for the Alfresco Community 3.4 release include (1) Collaborative Web Authoring, where Alfresco Web Quick Start is a set of out-of-the-box templates for building content-rich websites on top of Alfresco Share; Quick Start combines the power of Alfresco Share for web team collaboration, with powerful content authoring and publishing services like in-context web editing. (2) Office-to-Web Framework, where Using Microsoft's Office SharePoint Protocol and CIFS (shared file drive), along with a new API integration with Google Docs, users can now author documents in their native office suite, collaborate in Alfresco or Google Docs, transform and re-purpose if required, and then publish straight to the web... (3) Web Content Services for Spring - Built using the popular Spring and Spring Surf frameworks, Alfresco now offers key content management services that can be accessed via OpenCMIS and integrated into any web application. (4) Integration with Enterprise Portals and Social Software, where the new DocLib portlets allow seamless integration with enterprise portals like Liferay, Quickr and Confluence; using Single Sign On (SSO), the portlets provide access to both content and project repositories from within any JSR-168 compliant portal. (5) Distributed Content Replication - Native support for content replication allows organizations to run federated content repositories...

John Newton, Alfresco CTO: 'The demand for collaboration and social sharing around enterprise content is rising -- and content that was once meant just for the intranet is now being repurposed for the public web, external portals or even to destination sites across the web.
Through our implementation of CMIS (OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services Version 1.0) as a core standard and new features in Alfresco 3.4, our content services platform can now manage and deliver enterprise content to any internal or external application in a way that traditional, monolithic ECM products can't enable without significant time and expense'...

Alfresco has seen major adoption of its open source and open standards content management platform throughout the world, with more than two million downloads of Alfresco Community. Alfresco Community is a free-to-download, free-to-use version developed on an open source stack that runs on Windows, Linux or Mac. Alfresco Community members are able to access and share knowledge on the Alfresco Wiki and Forums and contribute extensions on the Alfresco Forge..."

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See also the announcement: http://www.alfresco.com/media/releases/2010/10/community-3.4/