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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Sun-Liferay and Project WebSynergy

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Lokesh Pant

After Sun-Liferay partnership early this year, Sun Microsystems has releases a stable version of a new Portal (from common code base) codename Project WebSynergy. A stable build 2 of WebSynergy is also available for download. Here are some of the new features in this release – 1. Portlet container 2.0: Complaint to JSR286 specs. Built [...]

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RedHat to acquire JBoss

Posted on April 11, 2006 by Lokesh Pant

The JBoss war has finally take a not so expected turn when Red Hat announced to acquire JBoss. Red Hat and JBoss have been recognized as open source leaders in their respective domains. The large and vibrant communities around Linux and JBoss prove that the open source development model creates innovative, quality software, while providing [...]

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Commercializing Open Source

Posted on February 24, 2006 by Lokesh Pant

The cloud thickens on the strategy of the open source vendors….“The enterprise fraternity” are keen on acquiring smaller rival companies with open sourced software and after acquisition, only unveil a part of the software that remained open sourced before, Then doesn’t the whole idea of open source get flouted? Another heating debate could be on [...]

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