How IBM is #1 in web portal software?

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Lokesh Pant

IT analyst firm Gartner, Inc., has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the Portal Products and User Interaction Tools enterprise software segment. Here is my take – There is no question on the capabilities and functionalities of IBM WebSphere Portal V 6.1, which is well designed to collaborate the information from users, [...]

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Another buyout. Who’s next?

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Lokesh Pant

Another big acquisition from shopaholic giant. Finally Oracle bought Sun Microsystems. Anyways..I’ll leave other analysts to comment on hardware/storage/cloud computing and other areas. I am more interested to speculate the future of software products from Sun, example Sun Portal, Access Manager, Directory Server, and other open source projects. Here is my take in that – [...]

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Interwoven to be Acquired by Autonomy

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Lokesh Pant

It was a mixed feeling for me when I read about Autonomy acquiring Interwoven. Yes, it is a surprise move as quoted by cmswatch, but some of the industry observers see it as a pending acquisition. Both Interwoven and Autonomy are niche and big market players in their area. Where Autonomy has a huge customer [...]

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Oracle-Bea, Portals,Portals everywhere !!

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Lokesh Pant

Is the portal market going to see another acquisition by Oracle? Though Bea has denied the deal of $6.66 bn as “too low”, but as we know Oracle has a history of acquiring BIG companies and maintaining multiple products of same line. BEA and Oracle own two Portal products each (Aqualogic and Weblogic) and (Oracle [...]

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“Portals” and “Portal-like”

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Lokesh Pant

Few days’ back I got to know about the something called “portal-like” . wow…a new word and a new concept after Collaboration, Web2.0 and SOA in the portal space. Drilled down a little deeper I came to know that this concept make sense when it comes to mid-size enterprise ,here it goes…. Portals Implementation gives [...]

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