OrfeoGPL
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OrfeoGPL is a free Software
Document management system
. It is GPL licensed GPL and open standards. OrfeoGPL is Language and incorporates the idea of "Fractalize processes" to facilitate the management of any company documents.
OrfeoGPL is a web application development in Php
, which runs on Apache
and it has support for other database PostgreSQL
, Oracle
and MSSQL, from the customer requiring a browser that meets the standards of W3C as Firefox or Chrome
.
OrfeoGPL is originally developed in Colombia
. It was registred in 2006 by its creators in the National Registry of Copyrights of National Copyright Directorate with License GPL, so any new development or branch will remain free.
After the first developments sought a name for the tool and a vote among some users and developers, In 2003 was chosen by a proposal from Julian Rolon: Orfeo, because unlike other proposals such as DOCfile, PAD (Document Management Platform) etc, seeking acronyms, just the explanation of Orfeo (Orpheus) is said "Bard Greek accompanied Jason on the quest for the Golden Fleece" that difference did the fate of the application name.
Free software
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Document management system
Document management system
A document management system is a computer system used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. It is usually also capable of keeping track of the different versions created by different users . The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management...
. It is GPL licensed GPL and open standards. OrfeoGPL is Language and incorporates the idea of "Fractalize processes" to facilitate the management of any company documents.
OrfeoGPL is a web application development in Php
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
, which runs on Apache
Apache
Apache is the collective term for several culturally related groups of Native Americans in the United States originally from the Southwest United States. These indigenous peoples of North America speak a Southern Athabaskan language, which is related linguistically to the languages of Athabaskan...
and it has support for other database PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...
, Oracle
Oracle database
The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
and MSSQL, from the customer requiring a browser that meets the standards of W3C as Firefox or Chrome
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...
.
OrfeoGPL is originally developed in Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
. It was registred in 2006 by its creators in the National Registry of Copyrights of National Copyright Directorate with License GPL, so any new development or branch will remain free.
History
Orfeo was conceptualized in 2002 by Denis Lopez and developed by Jairo Hernán Losada and Julian Rolón, in collaboration with other engineers in Superservicios, putting an early version of the product based on excerpts of code 'DocuImage' (a software that allowed the viewing of documents through the browser), which also worked Jairo Losada.After the first developments sought a name for the tool and a vote among some users and developers, In 2003 was chosen by a proposal from Julian Rolon: Orfeo, because unlike other proposals such as DOCfile, PAD (Document Management Platform) etc, seeking acronyms, just the explanation of Orfeo (Orpheus) is said "Bard Greek accompanied Jason on the quest for the Golden Fleece" that difference did the fate of the application name.