The Open Source document management system KnowledgeTree has been downloaded over 300,000 times from the well-known Open Source portal, SourceForge.Net.
Daniel Chalef of KnowledgeTree developers Jam Warehouse, stated: "The KnowledgeTree team believes in making document management as simple as possible. The download numbers for our one-click installer, available for both Linux and Windows, illustrates that we we're making a significant impact in the SMB and departmental space, where simplicity and ease of use are important concepts."
The health of an open source community is determined, alongside file downloads, by the number of active community participants. The KnowledgeTree Open Source project is hosting over 50 community projects on its "forge", a community management and hosting system. These projects range from language packs to feature extensions for the core document management module. The number of supporters to core application code has also been growing with the KnowledgeTree core engineering team accepting regular contributions, from bug-fixes to new features, from many community members.
The developing team wants to make document management simple. The web-based and AJAX-enabled application is built on the popular open source LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. KnowledgeTree has important community traction and has been downloaded more than 300 000 times to date. KnowledgeTree is used by small and big business alike, with users including Fortune 500 companies, community organizations, local and state governments and educational and scientific institutions around the world.
The product is offered in three flavors: KnowledgeTree SMB, KnowledgeTree Enterprise and KnowledgeTree Open Source. The other commercial versions of KnowledgeTree are sold with access to priority support and offer additional options that give a familiar Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office interface into the document repository and direct-to-repository scanning capability.
The software is an important commercial open source document management system designed for the SMB and departmental user, with more than 300 000 downloads to date The program is a free and commercial open source and Web-based document management system built on the popular open source LAMP stack. KnowledgeTree has been translated into numerous languages including: Español (Spanish), Português (Portuguese), Italiano (Italian), Français (French), Polski (Polish), Japanese, Russian, Nederlands (Dutch) and many others.
The KTForge community project system hosts these language plugins and many other extensions
Jam Warehouse handles business process management and web-based document management solutions for world-benchmarked organizations including international retailers, pre-press companies, newspaper groups, government entities, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies and even estate agencies.