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The Enterprise Portals Report 2008 looks at... Page layout in BroadVision Portal

"A page is made up of "tiles" in BroadVision -- analogous to portlets in other portal offerings. The tiles-based layout is, like other portals, based on columns. The number of columns and the column width is defined in an XML file. The specific placement of portlets can then be accomplished using the browser, although unfortunately the layout remains table-based by default. "

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BroadVision carries on as a public company...for now

10-Jan-2006

In July 2005 ailing portal vendor BroadVision announced their plans to go private and be acquired by a private equity company. It slipped our radar that in November the company then announced a "mutual termination of acquisition", due to "difficulty of securing a quorum in the stockholder vote." Pehong Chen, onetime media darling and still BroadVision's Chairman and CEO, has gamely made a commitment to relieve the company of some short-term liquidity concerns by fronting some of his own cash. In later news from December, BroadVision announced plans for a possible reverse stock split to maintain its NASDAQ listing. The company continues to work hard to survive -- and potentially find a new owner. BroadVision has made a serious investment to migrate off its own application server to broader J2EE-platform support, and relative to its smallish size, the company certainly tries to address some ambitious portal problems. Read more in the upcoming Enterprise Portals Report.

- Submitted by: Janus Boye, Contributing Analyst

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