‘Portal’ posts

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

It’s quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | View post »

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives

Posted by Optaros on 21 Dec 2008

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the | View post »

Acquia Drupal officially launches

Posted by Optaros on 03 Oct 2008

Do you love Drupal but wish you could get a “certified” version and commercial support? Now you can. Acquia, the commercial company recently formed by Drupal founder Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson, officially launched Acquia Drupal this week (press release). Acquia Drupal is a commercially-supported distribution of Drupal. It includes Drupal Core plus a handful | View post »

Integrated Assembly Environment – Choosing OForge to kickstart your project

Posted by Optaros on 26 Jun 2008

My most recent client engagement was a site redesign and launch for a leading national news paper. There is definitely some sexy technology at work on that site now (Python, Django, Ellington, Apache Solr, Inform, ..), but today I’m choosing to ‘blog about Optaros’ Trac-based software distribution known as OForge. For those who don’t know, | View post »

Event: Open Source ECM in Action

Posted by Optaros on 03 Jun 2008

If you’re going to be in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area on June 26th, come on by the Westin Galleria. I’ll be speaking at Alfresco’s “Open Source Enterprise Content Management in Action” event which runs from 8:30a to 11:00a and includes breakfast. I’ll be talking about some real-world client implementations involving Alfresco and Liferay and I | View post »

Enterprise 2.0: Free Conference Pass

Posted by John Eckman on 06 May 2008

At the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this June, I will be moderating a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panel will be Thursday, June 12th, at 8:30am. Here’s the session description: Community and collaboration pervade open source. It’s no surprise therefore that there are a number of open source platforms which are not | View post »

Running Alfresco web scripts as Liferay portlets

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 09 Apr 2008

I’ve seen a lot of Liferay and Alfresco forum posts from people having trouble getting Alfresco running within a Liferay portal. Once that’s done, people usually want to invoke Alfresco web scripts as portlets without requiring a separate single sign-on (SSO) infrastructure. Some people have pointed to the Alfresco wiki (Deploying 2.1 WAR Liferay 4.3). | View post »

Celebrate your love for JBoss in Orlando 2/13 – 2/15

Posted by Optaros on 08 Jan 2008

JBoss World is coming up next month. It's in Orlando February 13th – 15th. If you are interested in JBoss Portal, specifically, Thomas Heute lets you in on the Portal-specific sessions here. Much to my wife's chagrin ("You're going to a conference on Valentine's Day?!") I'll be at the conference. I'm looking forward to soaking | View post »

REFEN – a user centric approach to help ameliorate information workflows

Posted by Optaros on 08 Jan 2008

REFEN is a State of Vaud (south west of Switzerland) project that we delivered yesterday to our client to his great satisfaction. The enthusiasm of the customer was clearly expressed on the day we delivered the solution ahead of time. We succeeded in a short period of time in analyzing and gathering business processes in | View post »

Open Innovation

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 13 Dec 2007

Many consumer product and service companies are looking for ways to accelerate new product introduction and increase the probability of successful product launches. A major part of the Next Generation Internet is the concept of openness – that your customers can now communicate their views on your company and product over the internet and reach | View post »

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