Chilling out a bit during this holiday season, I'd like to take some time to send some wishes and thank you to all stakeholders, allowing us to continue and innovate in the Enterprise Content Management space…

• Thank you to all Nuxeo's employees, long-timers as new comers. Thank you for your work, your talent, your commitment and your attitude. Thank you for building this company and making it successful.
• Thank you to all our customers and partners. Thank you for your confidence, your support, your feedback and your judgement. Encouraging us to improve, deliver better services and innovate with new features and services. You allowed us to build this company the hard way: on real-world and strong foundations.
• Thank you to all the member of our community that are building this strong and vibrant open source ecosystem.
• Thank the journalists, bloggers and analysts that have covered and reported on what we were doing, even if we were not buyers or sponsors.
• Thank you to our investors, who are trusting and supporting us in those troubled economic times.

2008 was a good year for our company. Tough yet fun and successful. The platform has matured and improved to stand firm as a proven, rock-solid, full-featured platform for ECM. The company is well positioned as an open source leader in the ECM field. Our revenue are growing steep (+50% growth) and the downloads are booming (+400% in a year), positioning Nuxeo as the 2nd open source vendor in France (after Mandriva) and one of the top five in Europe (taking gross revenue into account). We successfully deployed many mission critical projects — for AFP, The Press Association, the French Defence Department, and tens of others —  thanks to our partners.

2008 was also a good year for the ECM world, with the inception of CMIS. I strongly believe it will deeply transform our industry, in the main interest of ECM customers and solution providers.

And 2008 has been a huge step forward for Open Source Software in general and Open Source vendors in particular. OSS has landing for good at the application layer of the information system (after having spread onto the network, operating systems and middleware stacks). With company like OpenBravo, SugarCRM, Nuxeo, Alfresco, XWiki, Aquia or Kaltura (not even counting old-timers such as RedHat, Novel or Sun), we've come up a long way and we're here to stay!

2009 starts tremendously for Nuxeo, despite the crisis — which brings, as for all companies, big opportunities for innovators and, of course, big threats for everybody. Nuxeo records impressive growth in sales and leads, the new version of our platform is in great shape and the company is financially strong. Starting our US operations and releasing several new products (especially in the field of Correspondence Management, Digital Asset Management and Cloud Computing) are our key challenges for 2009.

For sure, 2009 will be interesting and decisive for the ECM industry in general and our company in particular. I'm really excited to see what's coming and to be part of the game. Given what I'm seeing, I wouldn't like to be in proprietary vendors' seat. I bet it's going to hurt…

But, first of all: Happy new year everybody! I hope it will bring you a lot of surprises, joy and fun!

Cheers!

EB.

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