eXo Portal Merges into JBoss Community
Just now heard that eXo Platform merged portal software development into JBoss Community. I am watching open source portals for a long time and here is my understanding of what it means to everybody - What it means to eXo - eXo will be able to expand in USA where it was struggling for a long time What it means to JBoss - In absence of any real apps, JBoss Portal was more of a portlet container rather than a full flegged portal. JBoss suited as a middleware platform, but really lacked features (portlets/ apps) required for a portal. By this partnership JBoss will be able to get CMS, Groupware and couple of other applications that will make it competitive in open source portal market. What it means to eXo-JBoss - eXo-JBoss will be able to compete Sun-Liferay that was gaining market-share day by day. What is means to everyone - Open source portal market will become more competitive and hence we will se better open source portals in future. I want to congratulate Benjamin, Julien and every...