SixSigns is announcing today that we have plans to release our Enterprise Media Asset Management (MAM) as a free open source edition (based on ColdFusion). Our MAM system has been previously deployed as a licensed system and is currently in use by over 70 organizations. Our plan has always been to release the system as a open source solution, but it only made sense since New Atlanta's announcement of releasing BlueDragon as open source last week.
As said, we are still in the planning of the open source edition, but here is a summary:
- The MAM system will be released under the AGPL license. The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.
- A dual-license will be offered for customers that need it.
- The system itself comes with a integrated Web Content Management (CMS) and can be tailored to fit any needs.
- The current system is based on ColdFusion and the Oracle database. Currently all media assets are stored within the database and Oracle features special hooks for digital media assets. But users would have to have the Oracle database 10g R2 (at least in the standard edition one). We will change this to enable additional databases (especially MySQL) to really offer a complete open source solution (our system, Blue Dragon J2EE and database).
- We will offer and provide different support packages to give organizations the level of support that they need.
- We are planning to release the open source edition in about two month. As said we are rebuilding some parts of it to support different databases (thus rewriting search, indexing and handling of media assets) and have to rewrite some other code to suite BlueDragon's CFML support.
- BlueDragon J2EE edition will be released as a virtual image (VMWare), thus we will offer a fully installed version of our system on top of the virtual image as a free download as well.
We are in the middle of building a new website for the open source system and will make some more announcements on this blog in the near future. If you do have any questions or comments please leave a comment here.
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