Alfresco Claiming Successes to Early
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008I have been a fan of open source and think the Alfresco’s team has a great vision, but most recently I read an article posted by George Dearing on Information Week claiming several web content management successes by Alfresco. He listed the following:
- Online Gaming: www.eabigsports.com; www.activision.com
- Online Sports: http://www.eafootball.com
- Online Publishing: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu
- Online Telephony Services: http://labs.swisscom-mobile.ch
- Online Community Collaboration: http://eden.endeca.com/web/guest
As I tried to visit all these sites I found many issues with the deployment.
- I could not get the EA Football page to load.
- EA Big Sports redirected me to a generic place holder site.
- Activision killed my browser several times and I was never able to make it past the first load up screen.
- The Eden.edeca.com page would not let me go to the forums and would only let me spend a few seconds on the blog page before redirecting me to the home page.
For sure, Alfresco needs to spend some more time testing their success stories before releasing them to the media. Going to a site and having it kill your browser or not load are not good signs of success. Best of luck next time.