A Starring Role for Open Source?(www.fcw.com) Federal Computing Weekly covers Georgia Supreme Court's usage of Liferay Portal in an article on public sector adoption of open source technology. JSR 286: The last portlet standard?(www.cmswatch.com) The final release of the updated portlet specification, JSR 286, which came out earlier this month, marked the end of a long process for the important (Java) portal standard. Some vendors like Liferay have already been supporting earlier iterations of the standard. Many significant changes have happened in the marketplace since the initial draft of JSR 286 in August 2006. Liferay Portal 5.0 Released, Sun Joins the Team(www.infoq.com) Liferay, Inc. announced the release of the 5.0 version of their Liferay Portal product. The Liferay press release highlights a handful of the key tools and uses in the portal product. In addition, Liferay, Inc. announced Sun Microsystems is officially joining the Liferay Open Source community. First Groovy Portlet implemented in Liferay Portal Server(www.groovygrails.de) "Groovy is finding its way in more and more Java-based Open Source software products / projects. Now the first implementation of a Groovy portlet was announced for the Liferay Portal Server..." 20 great Windows open source projects you should get to know(www.NetworkWorld.com) "...As I tested the interface and features, I was surprised. I learned we could have done 75% of all the things we wanted by spending little to no money." Using CSS transforms to Build a Coverflow Effect(www.ajaxian.com) Liferay's Paul Bakaus has been experimenting with the new feature and was able to create a cool iTunes-like coverflow effect that actually flows and animates in real-time, without using canvas or prerendered graphics. Sun shines on a more 'social' Liferay in the portal market(www.the451group.com) Sun plans to use elements of Liferay Portal 5.0 in future releases of its open source portal... Sun Microsystems Joins Liferay Open Source Community(www.liferay.com) Liferay, Inc., recently announced that Sun Microsystems will formally be joining the Liferay open source community and will continue to contribute to the development of Liferay Portal. Sun's participation in Liferay's community will result in enhanced development of enterprise Web 2.0 features and optimized performance for Liferay Portal in combination with Sun's family of products. Liferay Portal 5.0(www.liferay.com) Liferay, Inc., today announced the release of Liferay Portal 5.0 at the 2008 JavaOne conference. The latest version highlights Liferay Portal's built-in Collaboration Suite, which provides enterprises with enhanced collaboration tools directly integrated into portal-based web applications. Liferay and Intalio Partner: Business Friendly Process Management(www.liferay.com) Together, the products allow employees to have a common interface to manage their daily workload. The portal enables a single integrated view of the user's calendar, email, task list and whatever other functions the employee or IT department includes. Is the portal the application?(www.the451group.com) "Here in the US, Liferay is seeing more requests for integrated collaboration capabilities, like profiles, wikis, blogs and discussion forums, that are delivered to end users in the portal itself. The company is even toying with out how best to refer to its product in this new world..." InfoQ Reviews Liferay 4.4(www.InfoQ.com) InfoQ spoke with Liferay CTO Michael Young to learn more about this release and about Liferay in general. Liferay Portal Standardizes on jQuery(www.liferay.com) Liferay, Inc. announces plans to standardize its products on jQuery and offer business critical support for jQuery technology. To lead this effort, the company welcomed Paul Bakaus, jQuery's lead UI developer, to its full-time staff. The Server Side Reviews Liferay Portal 4.4(www.theserverside.com) "Liferay has done an excellent job with this release; it's cleanly installed, very easy to use, and quite full-featured..." jQuery: Standardization & Services Support!(jQuery Blogs) Liferay Inc, announced plans to standardize our products on jQuery. To reach this goal, we recently welcomed Paul Bakaus, jQuery's lead UI developer, to our full time staff. Read his blog about his new role at Liferay. Liferay and Sygnity Form Services Partnership(www.liferay.com) Leading Polish Firm Offers Services and New Banking Solution Using Liferay Portal British Airways sets up tech innovation unit(www.silicon.com) "The unit's remit also includes open source and a new portal will go live on the BA staff intranet in January based on free open source software called Liferay." Liferay Powers SpringSource Website(www.liferay.com) Liferay Portal is powering the new website for SpringSource, provider of Spring Framework, the leading Java™ and Java EE™ application framework. FreeAnalysis Embedded into Liferay(www.freeanalysis.wordpress.com) FreeAnalysis is now running under Liferay, as an IFrame. Liferay Portal Named to EContent 100(www.liferay.com) Liferay, Inc. was today named to the "EContent 100", EContent magazine's list of the 100 most influential and innovative companies in the digital content industry. Averaging 40,000 downloads a month, Liferay Portal recently passed the one million download mark. Science 2.0 Evolves(www.fcw.com) Federal Computing World's Ben Bain interviews NCSA about their use of Liferay Portal as a collaboration platform... "Concerning the big picture, NCSA portal developers hope that by speeding the rate at which scientists share raw and quality controlled data, people will see the benefits of research much quicker as accurate modeling becomes more available to decision-makers..." CollabNet Builds New Discussion Forums with Liferay Portal(www.liferay.com) CollabNet, the leading provider of Subversion® and other globally distributed software development tools has leveraged Liferay technology for its new Discussion Services functionality that is part of the recently released CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0. Based on Liferay's Message Board portlet and extended with Liferay's ServiceBuilder tool, CollabNet's Discussion Services is an enhanced collaboration tool for CollabNet's collaborative platform for distributed development. "We saw the value and the potential of using Liferay's development platform," said Richard Murray, vice president of engineering at CollabNet. "There was a wealth of pre-built functionality available that provided a foundation to rapidly address the full range of our customers' needs." Liferay and Pentaho eye open source integration(www.CBRonline.com) Continuing a trend among open source vendors to integrate their technologies, Liferay and Pentaho have signed a technology partnership that aims to provide greater interoperatibility between their respective portal and business intelligence software products. Liferay and Pentaho Announce Technology Partnership(www.liferay.com) Liferay and Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, announce a technology partnership to enhance integration between their product lines. Free Software for the SMB(www.CRMNews.com) With more than 25.8 million small businesses currently in the U.S. and 671,000 new companies getting started every year, purveyors of free business software have lots of potential customers to attract. Open source vendors provide a wide collection of free software... Liferay Expands to China(www.liferay.com) Company Opens Dalian Office In Response to Rapid Growth "By tapping into a rich local talent pool, the Dalian office not only serves to support worldwide product development, but also helps to foster a rich technology exchange," said Bryan Cheung, Liferay's CEO. "The open source software movement is growing at a phenomenal rate in China. Liferay aims to help foster and expand it." Liferay and Terracotta Partner to Provide Cost-effective High Availabilty(www.liferay.com) World's Most Widely Used Portal Framework to Bundle Terracotta's Leading Infrastructure Software... Infoworld's BOSSIE awards demonstrate open source's progress(Blog: Matt Asay) "It's great to see Infoworld recognizing exceptional open-source projects..." Should your firm be FLOSSing?(www.theglobeandmail.com) For some companies, open source is a viable alternative to proprietary software: "Prescient Digital Media has begun incorporating open source portal and content management system products such as Joomla! and Liferay on client projects..." Liferay Portal Wins InfoWorld Bossie Award!(InfoWorld) "Liferay Portal tops a strong field of open source competitors in usability, functionality, and integration, rivaling many commercial portals in capabilities..." Open Source Software: The Power of Community(www.LinuxInsider.com) Like social Web sites, open source software is most valuable when it has a strong community around it, a community that has invested time and effort into learning the technology, creating features, submitting bug fixes, and creating documentation. Open source is also about empowering users to participate and not simply consume software. ICEfaces + Liferay = Rich User Experience and Developer Simplicity(www.ajaxworld.com) AJAX Portal technology partnership will enable visually rich, highly responsive web experiences. Liferay Announces Partnership with Triton Services(www.liferay.com) Triton will offer Liferay consulting services specific to the unique operational needs of US Government clients such as the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Communities and other Federal, State and local agencies and offices. Liferay and ICEfaces Announce Ajax Portal Technology Partnership(www.liferay.com) Liferay announced a new technology partnership with ICEsoft Technologies. ICEsoft is the creator of ICEfaces, an open source framework for simplified development of Ajax-enabled Java EE applications that are rich, robust, secure, and scalable. ICEfaces extends JavaServer Faces (JSF), providing... Liferay Version 4.3 Released!(www.liferay.com) Liferay, provider of the world's leading enterprise-class, open source portal framework, today announced the release of Liferay Portal 4.3. The latest version of the award-winning portal features a revamped user interface and improvements in performance. Portal gives Colorado department flexibility in consolidating its system(www.gcn.com) Colorado State Department of Human Services speaks to Government Computing News about its Liferay implementation: "The portal has given us a launching pad for the future," Cash said. "With more than 7,000 users, the portal is helping CDHS achieve its goal of a one-stop shop for the state's social services." Customer win round-up (EnterpriseDB and Liferay)(Blog: Matt Asay) "...Those of you who know the Liferay people will know that this couldn't have happened to a better group. Alfresco has been joined with Liferay for a range of deals - these guys get into some fantastic customers. Great work!" Triton Wins Department of State Contract - Uses Liferay(www.tritonsvc.com) Liferay Partner, Triton Services has been awarded a contract to incorporate the output of CMI into a Liferay™ architecture web portal for the Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of Iraq Affairs (NEA/I)... Liferay Now a Novell Market Start Partner(www.liferay.com) Liferay Partners With Novell; Provides Enterprise-Class Solutions to SMBs as Part of Novell Market Start. Brian Chan Conducts Webcast for International Association of Software Arc(www.cgidir.com) Web seminar on Large Scale Portal Architectures on May 24 from noon-1:30pm (Eastern). With the theme of "The Pros and Cons of a Portal Architecture," the webinar will be conducted by Brian Chan, Chief Software Architect of Liferay. Novell Teaming + Conferencing(www.liferay.com) Novell Teaming + Conferencing Uses Liferay Portal's its Default Portal Platform: Collaboration Offering Built on SiteScape's New ICEcorps Product Build Open Source, Make Money(http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edort/) "...the five panelists in the Open Source panel: Bob McWhirter of JBoss/Red Hat, Neelan Choski or Interface 21, Brian Kim, of Liferay, Joaquin Ruiz of SpikeSource, and John Newton of Alfresco. The discussion was led by Joseph Ottinger, TheServerSide.com's Editor-in-Chief. Kim noted that "there's a definitely an association between open source and community, but when things break down people start looking for professional help, training, and service." So that's where the sweet spot is for these open source companies." Web Services on a Mission(www.ftponline.com) The UN's IFAD agency employs Liferay Portal to streamline collaboration and knowledge sharing for a worldwide community. Liferay at The Server Side Java Symposium - March 22, 2007(www.theserverside.com) Liferay's Brian Kim was invited to sit on the Open Source Business Panel. Liferay Partners with TriVir, Novell Experts(www.liferay.com) Liferay Partners with TriVir, Novell Experts to Offer Portal Alternative for the Enterprise Co-exhibiting at Novell Brainshare 2007 InfoWorld LIVE!: Challenges for Today's Technology Entrepreneurs(InfoWorld LIVE! Radio) "The challenges we're facing today vs. the easy times of gravy and gold from ten years ago. My co-host shares his technology lawyer wisdom, I represent the middle-aged but still struggling startup via FB2, Bryan Cheung of Liferay reps the successful startup, q!Bang's High Mobley is the man from the brand new baby startup, and the smart and lovely Linda Musgrove from Tradeshow Teacher talks about the importance of marketing. Check it out." Innovation's Cutting-edge: Collaboration(www.CIO.in (CIO India)) Innovation's Cutting-edge: Collaboration Collaborative applications can move CIOs beyond being mere technology innovators. Liferay-CIGNEX Form Open Source Services Partnership(www.liferay.com) Press Release: Leading Open Source Consulting Firm Offers Integrated ECM/Portal Solutions as a Liferay Preferred Partner Liferay Portal Wins InfoWorld's 2007 Technology of the Year Award(www.liferay.com) Press Release: Liferay Version 4.0 Named "Best Open Source Portal". A Good Story About Collaboration(www.cio.com) "...the bigger story here is how this application [Liferay] is enabling business innovation within Goodwill. The portal, MyGoodwill, has some 80,000 users company-wide who are tapping into it to develop new business initiatives--more registered users than any other corporate application..." Liferay Opens German Office(www.liferay.com) Press Release: Liferay Opens German Office To Service European Demand For Web Portal Software. Company Responds to Strong Adoption Rate Among European Enterprise Users. Liferay Names New CEO(www.liferay.com) Press Release: Former Director of Business Development, Bryan Cheung, Takes Business Lead. Liferay open source portal adds content management, ESB links(www.CBRonline.com) Liferay Inc, an open source Java portal company, has just released a new version of its offering that adds new Ajax mashup capabilities, plus links to workflow engines and enterprise service buses. Liferay 4.2 Released!(www.liferay.com) Press Release: 4.2 Released! The latest version offers added back-end enhancements to workflow and content management via integration with ServiceMix JBI, jBPM workflow engine, and Alfresco, as well as new features such as chat and other user-interface enhancements that further improve end-user experience and collaboration. New Liferay Portal 4.2 released(Blog: Mika Koivisto) "...I've been demoing some of the new features from svn trunk to some potential clients and also internally and everyone has been impressed with Liferay." Why Open Source is more secure than Closed Source...(Blog: James McGovern) "Liferay Enterprise Portal, EJBCA and ServiceMix will now be proven as the most secure portal, certificate authority and enterprise service bus beating out their competition in this regard. This should hopefully speed up the adoption of secure software development practices amongst the vendor community." Liferay open source portal turns 4.2(Blog: Mark Asay) "Liferay is one of the quietest, yet most interesting open source companies around, both because of its technology and because of its corporate mission. They do enterprise-class open source portal technology, and make a super-slick product that a range of Fortune 500 companies deploy in production." The International Association of Software Architects Unveils New Website.(IASA) The International Association of Software Architects Unveils New Website on Liferay. Liferay Provides Content Management & Services To Major German Insurer(www.liferay.com) Press Release: Liferay Creates Large Consumer Site for Insurer HanseMerkur Under Tight Time Constraint; Search Engine Results Improved Liferay wins EContent 100 Award!(www.liferay.com) Press Release:Listing Cites Companies that "Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry" Employers Direct Insurance Company Implements Liferay(www.liferay.com) Press Release: Employers Direct Insurance Company Creates Higher Customer Satisfaction, Lower Costs with Liferay Portal. Open Source Solution Drives Multiple Websites and Simplifies Content Management Duties for California's Workers' Compensation Specialist Liferay Teams With Pramati To Multiply Product Capability and Value(www.liferay.com) Press Release: Integrated App Server and Portal Smoothes Path to SOA. Open Source Portal Software Gaining Market Acceptance(www.Tekrati.com) "Established projects like Liferay can boast highly dynamic communities, while Apache Jetspeed and Red Hat JBoss Portal have yet to gain significant developer traction" Finally: A Java-Based, Open-Source Collaboration Suite(Blog: Steven Tedjamulia, Collaboration Loop)
Liferay & Glassfish part III: Configuring Liferay(Blog: Stefan Paquet) Using Glassfish described in a three part series. Liferay & Glassfish part II: Configuring Glassfish(Blog: Stefan Paquet) Using Glassfish described in a three part series. Liferay & Glassfish part I: Installing Glassfish(Blog: Stefan Paquet) Using Glassfish described in a three part series. Brian Chan speaks with Alfresco and Christian Science Monitor(www.Alfresco.com) about the new csmonitor.com, powered by Liferay and Alfresco/Liferay integration to come! Liferay Portal 4.0.0 is released!(www.liferay.com) Press Release: Fine-grained security model, enterprise taxonomy, delegated and cascading permissions and administration, public and private pages, JSR-170 compliance via Jackrabbit integration, and page-level themes to the popular open-source portal application. Liferay Tops CCLRC Portal Evaluation Against uPortal, eXo, Gridsphere(Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils)
Liferay Teams With Alfresco And Virtuas(www.liferay.com) Press Release: Liferay Teams With Alfresco And Virtuas To Provide Performance, Value, Choice in Enterprise Software Liferay present at JavaOne 2006.(www.sys-con.com) Meet the development team at booth 935. View CEO, Brian Chan's interview, live from JavaOne 2006. JBoss and Liferay provide open portals to SOA(www.infoworld.com) Infoworld compares Liferay Portal against JBoss portal in their abilities to provide SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) capabilities. Open Source Portal Software(Blog: Raven Zachary, 451 CAOS Theory) "Liferay Portal...the users I have spoken with have been big fans..." Open Source Portal Software Controls Security(www.linuxworld.com.au) With the help of Goodwill Industries International, Liferay Portal 4.0 lets individual users, groups and guests have portlet-level permissions. Administrators can set or restrict access to portlets and portlet objects, as well as delegate access authority to others. A Free Portal(www.line56.com) Line56 investigates the free, open source Liferay. It is both flexible and backed by options like services and training. Microsoft's high prices drive FSW to Linux, open source...(searchopensource.techtarget.com) High costs and an urgent need for standards compliance is driving FSW Inc. away from Microsoft and into new worlds, such as server virtualization on Linux, an open source and Linux backend and open source desktops. Community Maturity Models(Blog: James McGovern) "Liferay is a 100% open source enterprise-class Java Based Portal that has not only been proven to be highly reliable and scalable but has one of the best support models available." Kito Mann to present JSF on top of Liferay at TheServerSide Symposium(javasymposium.techtarget.com) Component-oriented user interface frameworks such as JavaServer Faces (JSF) are growing in popularity, and organizations are also beginning to recognize the power of building application components with the Portlet API. What many don't realize, however, is the fact that JSF has integrated support for the Portlet API, making it a natural fit for building portlets. This session starts with a brief overview of JSF, portlets, and portals. It then explains how JSF portlet support works, and examines the process of developing portlets with JSF. Next, it walks through the development of a simple JSF application and deployment of that application as a portlet inside of Liferay Enterprise Portal, an open-source portal server. Why enterprises should be paying attention to XACML(Blog: James McGovern) "For the folks that created JSR-168, shouldn't they be thinking about accepting XACML via a standard portal API? (Liferay Enterprise Portal will be the first Enterprise Portal that supports XACML." The Lion, the Witch, and Linux(www.newsforge.com) Walden Media, the company that produced The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, wanted a community-driven Web site that would encourage discussion and collaboration on the educational products related to its movies. After considering the options, Walden Media chose Liferay's MIT-licensed open source content management system (CMS), running on Linux. |
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