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Report Excerpt

The Enterprise Portals Report 2008 looks at... Portal software and Web Services

"Every portal vendor will say it is "Web Services compliant." Many vendors use Web Services protocols to communicate within the portal itself, but this is not the same as integrating remote systems. Threading together multiple services via SOAP or even simple XML-RPC is not for the novice development team..."

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More about The Enterprise Portals Report 2008

 

Vendors covered in The Enterprise Portals Report 2008

  • Oracle: Universal Content Management 10gR3
  • Infrastructure Vendors

    • BEA: WebLogic Portal 10
    • BEA: AquaLogic User Interaction 6.1
    • IBM: WebSphere Portal Server 6.0.1
    • Microsoft: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
    • Oracle: Oracle Portal 10g
    • Oracle: Oracle WebCenter Suite
    • SAP: SAP NetWeaver 7.0
    • Sun: Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1

    Specialty Portal Products

    • Broadvision: Broadvision Portal 8.0
    • Vignette: Vignette Portal 7.3

    Major Open-Source Portals

    • Apache Project: Jetspeed-2.1 Enterprise Portal
    • eXo Platform: eXo Portal 2.0
    • JASIG: uPortal
    • JBoss: RedHat: JBoss Portal 2.4
    • Liferay: Liferay Portal 4.2
    • Plone: Plone 3.0

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