The Archives
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06.05.08SixSigns announces support of the Railo engine for RazunaRazuna, the Digital Asset Management with integrated Content Management System from SixSigns, will be ready to deploy on Railo 3.1 when available. In this regard, Razuna will be ready to deploy on ColdFusion, BlueDragon, Open BlueDragon and Railo. Razuna is a professional digital asset management/media asset management with an integrated web content management that delivers and makes management of your digital assets a simple task! By using Razuna you get the benefit of it being free and open source and supported by a professional company. Razuna, previously a closed source system, will be released as open source in the coming weeks.
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06.03.08On my way to Edinburgh for the Scotch conferenceIn about an hour I catch my flight to Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Scotch on the Rocks conference. I will be giving a session on Friday about "Open BlueDragon, Tomcat & Compatibilities". This is a must attend for anybody interested in deploying Open BlueDragon and the major differences between Adobe ColdFusion and Open BlueDragon. I will also have with me the latest version of Razuna - our open source Digital Asset Management with integrated Content Management. So, if you want to get a peak at it or want to talk to me about involvement, please ping me at nitai [at] sixsigns [dot] ...
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06.02.08Our open Source project Razuna got a logoOur designer created a logo for our open source project "Razuna" today. We think it looks great and resembles what Razuna is all about. Here it is: Since Razuna is a open source Digital Asset Management which can hold all your digital asset the "dots" on the left symbolize the assets that can be stored in the repository. At the same time (just about right for the Scotch on the Rocks conference), we also put up the website for Razuna. Thus without further ado, we are happy to present to you the official home of the Razuna project.
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05.07.08Getting Oracle database to work with Open BlueDragonThere is a lot of movement around the release of Open BlueDragon. It is good to see the community reacting positively to the open source endeavors of New Atlanta. We, here at SixSigns, are currently testing our soon to be released open source Media Asset Management (MAM) with integrated Content Management called RAZUNA with the current release of Open BlueDragon. As Razuna comes from our commercial product and that product stores every media asset in the Oracle 10G R2 database (future releases will support MySQL and other databases) it was one of the first tasks to get the Oracle database working with ...
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05.02.08Open BlueDragon got a websiteI have not seen any announcement about this, but I just went over to http://www.openbluedragon.org/ and saw this very well designed website. Congrats to the designers. I like the design a lot. Now just waiting for the release :-) Just saw that Open BlueDragon will be released under GPLv3! In previous interviews, Vince stated that it will be v2. I welcome the change since we will release our Open Source Media Asset Management under v3 as well.
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04.16.08Mailinglist for our open source Digital Asset ManagementFor all those interested in our open source Digital Asset Management with integrated Web Content Management we have now setup a mailing list. The list is open and can be joined by everybody. Our management and development team is subscribed to the list as well and is ready for an open discussion.
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04.15.08Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview with Sean Corfield and our open source Digital Media and Web Content Management SystemAnd another well done interview by Alan Williamson on members of the Steering Committee. This time it hit Sean Corfield. We especially like this part of his interview where he was asked his opinion on CFML, open source and the community; "The CFML community is definitely getting better in this area but open source is still a very new concept for the vast majority of them. Many developers have released code in source form but for the most part those offerings have not really been "open source" - no way to build a community, no clear licensing, no public ...
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04.01.08The AGPL in simple wordsSince we have announced that we are going to open source our Digital Asset Management under the Affero General Public License (AGPL) we have had some questions about the licensing, meaning what the AGPL exactly is. The place to start is with the "ASP loophole" in popular open source licenses, including the GPLv3. Under the GPL, of course, if you distribute software you must distribute the source. But what if you're an application service provider - someone who provides a service over the web using open source software? In that case, you're not distributing the software, and you don't have to ...
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04.01.08One more thing that will be different in the BlueDragon J2EE open source offeringVince Bonfanti was giving a talk to the ColdFusionWeeklyPodcast and in it he states that there will be a additional 4th feature that will not make the cut in the open source edition (we already stated the difference of the open source versus the commercial one). "Precompile templates" is a way to ship your application without shipping the source. Vince states that it does not make sense (for New Atlanta) to give away their source and people will have the option to hide the source of their applications. This is philosophically not correct for them. No problem from our end. Since we ...
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08.17.06Google Buys Photo Recognition FirmGoogle on Tuesday announced it had acquired Neven Vision, a company that develops photo recognition software which is currently used in mobile phones, along with biometric applications by the U.S. government and law enforcement. Neven Vision holds 15 patents related to image analysis and facial recognition. Google plans to use the technology to improve Picasa, its free photo organization application. The program will eventually be able to automatically identify individuals and places in pictures, which will make searching far easier. As a fact, Oracle already features searching for similar images in a very sophisticated way. This feature of Oracle is also already ...
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06.11.06Good times at CEPIC and see you next time in FlorenceAfter a full schedule of meetings for 4 days we are save and exhausted back home. It was a intensive time and we wish to thank all parties who made the event a wonderful experience. Unfortunately, if it wouldn't have been for the good company of the people we have meet the event would not be that good. Why? Those would had a table experienced very bad Internet Connections. For those who relied on the connection for a presentation were more then frustrated. Somehow vegetarians do not exist for some people in ...
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05.28.06Rise of micropayment stock photographyI just came accross a very good report on Wired about iStockphoto and how it rose from a free image site to a million dollar business. This is a must read fro everyone who is starting up a business without money and see what can be accomplished .... Got to Wired report on iStockphoto
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03.30.06The case for a digital asset management systemA Digital Asset Management application is simply a tool for organizing digital media assets for storage and retrieval. When searching for a digital asset management system, the first thing to identify is your objective. What solutions should it provide to what problems? Do you simply want to find media content on demand? Create collaborative creative environments? Systematize efficient workflow? Manage rights and permissions complete with automated tracking and accounting? Implement full-blown electronic commerce? Let the priority of one or more of these goals be your guiding principle in sorting through the facts and marketing hype.
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02.07.06The better alternative then BLOB - meet IntermediaMany people think of storing images in a database as a complete overhead or even that the performance suffers. This might be very true for a database product that has no special image functions or performance issues with large objects stored within the database. Good news for every developer, meet Intermedia a part of Oracles Database offering..... Oracle Intermedia Intermedia is part of every Oracle Database (except Oracle's Express Edition. Well, they had to make you go for your money...) and is the most overlooked part within Oracle. With Intermedia you can replace all you blob fields with a intermedia type (ordimage). ...
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02.03.06The advantages of storing Assets within a databaseThe problem with File Systems and Digital Assets File system based media specialty servers continue to be in use in managing media such as digital images. The use of file systems to manage digital media such as images and video has led to specialty servers for different kinds of data. This results in data isolation and high systems admin and management costs. It also leads to scalability problems, high training costs, and complex support problems. File systems with their limited name space and indexing mechanisms notoriously perform poorly under high load. They are also not noted for running with high availability. They ...
