Recently, I was contacted by someone who thought we were a new startup tech company. Well, I guess we were at one time, OpenEdit started up about 8 years ago!
Since then we having spent a lot of our time working directly alongside corporations and organizations to implement OpenEdit into their workflows, specifically addressing Digital Asset Management and Web Content Management needs. All of their feature requests have helped to make OpenEdit the sleek, fast and powerful web application it has come to be.
Best of all, each of these features have become part of our OpenEdit software, which is free to download and install.
Below is a blurb written for some marketing material I needed a while ago. Although it reads as marketing (so sorry!), I thought it would be good to post on our blog to give everyone a bit of information about the OpenEdit software:
During the past eight years, OpenEdit Framework (OEF) has been developed primarily by programmers located in Cincinnati, Ohio: Christopher Burkey (Principal Architect), Matt Avery, Eric Galluzzo, Chris Nelson, Roger Cass, Axis Sivitz and Ian Miller. With technical services from Jorge Valencia and Taylor Cornett (and most recently Nick Stonebraker).
OpenEdit is a JAVA based, open source software used to build powerful, yet lightweight web applications. Licensed under a royalty free, perpetual and transferable GNU LGPL license, Open source provides freedom on setting up your systems as you wish and freedom in the long term.
Over the years, OpenEdit has been refined and implemented for numerous web application projects, mostly used in enterprise global environments. OpenEdit has evolved from a pure content management solution, into a web application framework used to create and maintain dynamic websites and custom web applications, such as Digital Asset Management, Web Content Management, Ecommerce, Blog, Social Networking Tools, etc. With a 100% project success rate using Agile Programming Methods, OpenEdit has proven itself to be flexible and easy to work with.
Built from the ground up with Velocity, OpenEdit Framework uses Spring for Java objects and actions. Uses an XML based architecture, however – OpenEdit also has a Pluggable Database Storage module using Hibernate, if your preferred application requires a database. OpenEdit can be easily installed on Windows, Linux, Solaris and OSX.
OpenEdit has AJAX enabled pages and previews which make everything dynamic. Works with J2EE applications and runs JAVA Servlet in order to run with other applications. The OpenEdit framework uses nested layouts, XML metadata, actions associated with URLs, server side scripting and Velocity/JSP.
Each feature of OpenEdit is self contained with as few interdependencies as possible. The idea is to allow any feature of OpenEdit to be able to interact with, or even within, other parts of your application.
For you developers, be sure to visit our OpenEdit Framework website for developers. If you want to know more about OpenEdit's features, visit our OpenEditDAM website or zap me an email!
