With the announce of their 2.0 release candidate, Liferay significantly widens the pool for opensource JSR168-compliant enterprise portal software ...

Liferay is a free open-source implementation of an
enterprise portal server similar to Jetspeed, WebSphere, Plumtree and Epicentric. It provides personalization features similar to Yahoo and a vast array of pre-built portlets such as Mail, News, Shopping Cart, Message Board, Wiki, and many more. All the portlets are JSR-168 compliant.

Liferay is licensed under an MIT opensource license and ships with JBoss/Tomcat, JBoss/Jetty or Orion. A full demo can be seen on my.liferay.com and the project development can be tracked on SourceForge

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Jetspeed is the industrial strength free-software portal framework created and maintained by the people who use it. Jetspeed is fully MVC patterned, Java servlet based, completely modular and standards based, and it's our best offering for the extremely high-performance or technically challenging industrial-quality webservices or portal application.

Teledynamics has been involved in Jetspeed and it's sister Jakarta projects since before the day they met in the 'Jakarta' room and named them; in all the years since, we've never found reason to stop recommending them. These are professionally crafted tools with solid standards-based design and attention to every portal detail.

TCI offers the following Jetspeed support services:

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According to an item on News.Com the City of Houston has begun to phase out Microsoft Office for its 13,000 city workers. Yup, dump it, get it off their desktops. Are they moving to OpenOffice or Corel or Linux KOffice? Nope. Here's the very best part: Rather than pick and choose which vendor you'd want to be chained to, the City of Houston is stepping out of the O/S Wars entirely by moving to SimDesk.

Back in the early 90's, Hiroshi Ishii (NTT) could go on for hours about "ubiquitous computing", computers everywhere, transparently, in all shapes and sizes and, presumably made by anyone and everyone from every corner of the industrialized world. "I want to call up a phone call in the kitchen, then walk into my den and pick up the 'call' there by touching my wall at the spot where the video should open...".  read more »