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The Enterprise Portals Report 2008 looks at... BEA AquaLogic User Interaction 6.1

"While some customers have opted to use ALUI for publicly-facing sites, the available portlets and nature of the architecture makes it hard to meet the needs of a high-performance or transactional website, where other products (including WLP) might be a better fit."

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BEA to acquire Plumtree

29-Aug-2005

Last week BEA announced a definitive agreement to acquire Plumtree. Both companies have portal portfolios, which are among the most significant in the market. BEA's WebLogic Portal is considered more of a development framework, while Plumtree offers a more out-of-the-box portal product. There will be execution challenges in this acquisition, with Plumtree just recently moving to J2EE while most of their customers remain on Microsoft .NET platforms. Whether the latter group will want to switch or BEA will strive to support them remains to be seen. Internationally BEA is significantly stronger than Plumtree and it might be BEA's strong international sales force that effectively determines the fate of the Plumtree products. This acquisition aside, the portal market remains and open and immature -- and particularly the area of CMS and portal integration continues to cause pain for customers.

- Submitted by: Janus Boye, Contributing Analyst

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