Apple has just approved the first release of our Nuxeo World 2011 companion app for general availability on the iTune App Store. Check it out here.

I was at the Open World Forum last week (which I also help organize) and had the pleasure to be interviewed by Sandro Groganz, a partner with Age Of Peers and a specialist of open source marketing.

Here me answer questions about our open source business model, about open source marketing, and about the french open source ecosystem.

Here is the video on YouTube:

The Tour de France 2011 is already over (congratulations to Cadel Evans, Mark Cavendish, Samuel Sanchez and Pierre Roland, winners of the four distinctive jerseys this year), but the Tour de Nuxeo is far from over.

Let’s move on today with a video tour of the Nuxeo DM platform. It is not too long (45 minutes overall) and will give you a pretty thorough view of what you can do with Nuxeo in terms of document management, as well as some insights on how the Nuxeo platform can be managed by systems and content administrators, and extended by developers to fit your specific business needs.

We have a dedicated page on nuxeo.com where we’ve made it easy to navigate through the different chapters of this video tour. Or you can watch the following 7 videos in order below.

I’m happy that we announced today that:

• Our Nuxeo DM packages have been accepted in the Ubuntu “Partner” repository, so that it’s even easier than before to install Nuxeo DM (and soon, other products from Nuxeo) on an Ubuntu Linux server.

• Nuxeo is now a part of Canonical’s “Software Partner Programme” and listed as a ”software partner” on the Ubuntu site.

• Canonical is now listed as a partner in our own partner directory.

• More than 1/2 of our developers are using Ubuntu Linux on their main development machine, and 100% of our production servers are using either Debian or Ubuntu Linux (OK, that part was not it the official announcement, but it’s the truth ;).

So today’s the 7th of July (7/7), and also, not so coincidentally, the day Oracle has chosen as the official day to launch Java 7.

We weren’t invited to the party, but let’s take a break anyway from our Tour de Nuxeo series to look at the 7 reasons why we’re happy to be using Java (Java 6, actually, we’re in no rush to adopt Java 7) for the Nuxeo Enterprise Content Management Platform.

As we’ve seen in stage 1 of this Tour de Nuxeo, Nuxeo EP is a platform that implements all the major services that are expected nowadays to manage content at an enterprise scale.

In today’s stage, we’re going to dive deeper into the technology that powers the Nuxeo platform, and show how its architecture was carefully chosen to answer the common needs of our customers and user community.

However, since Thierry Delprat, our fearless CTO, has already written extensively about the Nuxeo EP architecture, let me focus here on the points that I think need to be highlighted and refer you to his writings and slides (see below) for more details.

This is stage 2 of the 2011 ”Tour de Nuxeo”. Follow the link for the list of other stages.

“Nuxeo” is both a company and an open source project that aims at creating world-class technologies (“Nuxeo EP”) and products (“Nuxeo DM”, “Nuxeo DAM”, etc.) for Enterprise Content Management.

Nuxeo, the company

Nuxeo is a company that I founded 10 years ago, in December 2000.

Our initial mission was to create open source “Web applications for better collaboration” (this was our first motto) - collaborative intranets, e-government websites - for a market that was comprised primarily of European public administrations (including several of the major French ministries).

In 2006, we did a full rewrite of our software stack using libraries and frameworks from the mature open source Java ecosystem, and started a business model migration from service company to open source software vendor.

This is stage 1 of the 2011 ”Tour de Nuxeo”. Follow the link for the list of other stages.

Enterprises and organizations face tremendous pressure to deal with an increasing amount of content, in terms of sheer volume (petabytes and beyond), number of content items (millions to billions of documents), and number of interaction points with either human personnel (inside or outside the organization) or automated systems.

In today’s Tour de Nuxeo stage, we will have a look at the main challenges that face organizations that need to manage their content. But first, let’s start by answering a simple question: What is content?