LEADING OPEN SOURCE DMS
Alfresco is the first open source enterprise-scale document management system that includes a modern content repository, an out-of-the-box portal framework for managing and using content designed to work with standard portals, and a groundbreaking Common Internet File System (CIFS) interface that provides Microsoft Windows file system compatibility. Alfresco takes the lessons of building document management systems for the last 15 years and applied them to build an open source content management system that is easier to use, more scalable and more adaptable.
Nuxeo 5 is an innovative, standards-based, open source platform for building ECM and DMS applications. Its component-based and service-oriented architecture makes it easy to customize and extend, making developers more efficient and ultimately, happier.
KnowledgeTree™ allows users to secure, share, track, and manage documents. Some of the features include Search within Document Contents, Workflow, Metadata, Version-Controlled Document Repository, and WebDAV support.
OTHER OPEN SOURCE DMS
OpenProdoc
A complete Document Management System, with document and folder type definitions, control of versions, sophisticated security options and document lifecycle management.
Quotero provides a fully Open Source DMS. Designed for organisations of any size and any activity, Quotero is pretty fast and with interesting features like an Office plugin. Even if Quotero is pretty young compared to Alfresco or Nuxeo, it is a promising open source DMS.
Owl is a multi user document repository (knowledgebase) system written in PHP4 for publishing files/documents onto the web for a corporation, small business, group of people, or just for yourself.
xinco™ DMS is a powerful Web-Service based Information and Document Management System (DMS) for files, text, URLs and contacts, featuring ACLs, version control, full-text search and an FTP-like client.xinco DMS™ is a powerful Web-Service based Information and Document Management System (DMS) for files, text, URLs, and contacts, featuring ACLs, version control, full-text search and an FTP-like client.
DocMGR is a complete, web-based Document Management System (DMS). It allows for the storage of any file type, and supports full-text indexing of the most popular document formats. It is available in many different languages and is easy to translate into new languages. DocMGR runs on PHP, the Apache webserver, and Postgresql. It optionally uses tsearch2 for full-text indexing which provides for faster search results and result ranking. DocMGR supports LDAP authentication, the ability to easily add and remove “objects” for storage in the system, document workflow, object subscriptions, WebDAV access, and an ever-growing set of features revolving around content storage.
Magnolia is an open source, J2EE deployable content management system (CMS). It uses the standard API for java content repositories (JCR) (JSR-170) to access its content.
OpenKM is an multiplatform application for document management based on open technology (JBoss + GWT + Jackrabbit). It allows the storage, classification and use of all kind of files and documents within an user friendly framework.
Maarch is an Open Source framework for archiving and retrieving large volumes of static documents. In a certain way, it is designed as an IDARS product (Integrated Document Archiving and Retrieval System).
Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). A content repository is a hierarchical content store with support for structured and unstructured content, full text search, versioning, transactions, observation, and more. Typical applications that use content repositories include content management, document management, and records management systems.