LONDON, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfresco Software, Inc., the first and leading provider of open source enterprise content management solutions, today announced that open source guru Brian Behlendorf will be keynote speaker at the inaugural Alfresco North American Community Conference in New York, on Wednesday, November 7, 2007. His presentation, "The Threat of Microsoft SharePoint to Open Source," will take place at 10 a.m. ET.

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Behlendorf is a technologist, computer programmer and an important figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the Apache Software Foundation.

Behlendorf is currently on the board of directors of CollabNet, a company he co-founded with O'Reilly & Associates (now O'Reilly Media) in 1999 to develop tools for enabling collaborative, distributed software development. CollabNet is also the primary corporate sponsor of Subversion, an open source version control system.

The Alfresco North American Community Conference is a one-day event designed to promote a continuous exchange of information, ideas and product plans between the Alfresco Community and the Alfresco Product Development team. A separate Alfresco European Community Conference will take place in Paris on November 15, 2007.

Attendees at both conferences will have the opportunity to participate in roadmap reviews, prioritization, and design discussions and learn from implementation and best practice case studies delivered by Alfresco customers.

To register for either of these Community Conference events, please visit the Alfresco Web site at http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2007/community_conference_1107.jsp

To download Alfresco, please visit http://www.alfresco.com/products/ecm/enttrial/.

About Alfresco Software, Inc.

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It was the first to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell, Alfresco is based in London. For more information, please visit http://www.alfresco.com/.

Media Contacts: Ian Howells Alfresco Software Inc. +44 1628 860500 press@alfresco.org Patricia Colby Page One PR for Alfresco Software, Inc. 415-875-7494 patricia@pageonepr.com

CONTACT: Ian Howells of Alfresco Software Inc., +44 1628 860500,
press@alfresco.org; or Patricia Colby of Page One PR, +1-415-875-7494,
patricia@pageonepr.com, for Alfresco Software, Inc.

Web site: http://www.alfresco.com/

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