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Nuxeo claims it’s flying in open source ECM
May 27, 2008
I'm often amused when US or UK-based privately held companies announce their ‘results’. Because they don’t have to, they rarely tell you the sales or profits as absolute numbers, but they always tell you they are growing like billy-o.
Not so straight-forward in France, it turns out, because there, even privately held companies must post their results at the end of their financial year, if you know where to look.
Nuxeo hasn't reached its financial year-end yet so we must go with what they can tell us so far.
Nuxeo, the open source enterprise content management (ECM) platform vendor, says its first semester results saw sales up 50%, plus a 30% increase in new customers and a 300% increase in software downloads. From what to what, we are left to ponder...
The firm says it will recruit ten new people this year to support its growth. "Nuxeo’s spectacular growth in the first semester of 2008 validates both our technical strategy and our open source business model," said Stefane Fermigier, founder and CEO of Nuxeo. "The results confirm that our platform is meeting specific market needs, from collaborative document management to multimedia document management.”
Everyone knows that downloads of free open source software is not a hugely useful metric: the question is how many of those downloaders pressed the software into active use as opposed to just kicking the tyres.
Founded in 2000 in Paris and now with a subsidiary in the UK, the firm must be doing something right to have integration partners that include Atos Origin, Business & Decision, Capgemini, Eurocis, Logica and more.
Anyway, what do I know? Take a look at www.nuxeo.com and see what you think of the firm and its free-to-download ECM technology. It’s also built a community site at www.nuxeo.org.
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