Nuxeo: where is the roadmap?

Alfresco has a pretty complete and explicit roadmap:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Roadmap

Where's Nuxeo roadmap?

The only recent one I could find is already 6 month old and rather sketchy to say the least:

http://blogs.nuxeo.com/fermigier/2010/02/preliminary-nuxeo-ep-roadmap-2010.html

So the score for this battle: Alfresco 1, Nuxeo 0.

Round 2: Connectivity

The value of an ECM platform resides in its ability to be connected to third-party applications, both other enterprise applications, and desktop clients.

How do Alfresco and Nuxeo fare in this respect? Here’s my own analysis, based on personal experience and a little bit of googling:

	Alfresco	Nuxeo
CIFS	V	X
WebDAV	V	P
FTP	V	X
CMIS	V	P
IMAP	V	V
REST API	V	P
SOAP API	V	P
RMI API	V	V

Some explanations:

• Alfresco seems to support all the mentioned
  protocols
• Nuxeo doesn’t claim to support CIFS or FTP
• WebDAV support in Nuxeo is optional, and from my
  experience, very partial
• CMIS support in Nuxeo is only partial (no versioning,
  for instance)
• Nuxeo’s REST and SOAP APIs are only partial

What’s you’re opinion about this matrix? Which APIs and protocols do you use in your projects? Give you opinion in the comments!

Round 1: Supported Operating Systems and Ease of Installation

According to the download page on alfresco.com, Alfresco packages (installers) exist for:

• Windows
• Mac OS
• Linux

These packages include the Alfresco platform (community edition), OpenOffice.org (used transforming and indexing MS-Office documents), and ImageMagik executables (used for image transformation).

OTOH, Nuxeo, on their download page, also claim to provide packages for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. However,

1. Only the Windows package is a real installer. The "Mac OS" and "Linux" packages are just ZIP files and not real installers.
2. The packages only contain the Nuxeo platform, not the third-party apps that are needed by Nuxeo (such as OpenOffice.org and ImageMagik, as for Alfresco).

First round winner: Alfresco

Current score: Alfresco 1, Nuxeo 0.

Do you agree or disagree with my analysis? Please use the comments to voice your own opinion.

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I'm creating this blog to publish my findings and collect feedback on the two leading open source ECM platforms, Alfresco and Nuxeo.