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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