Re: Portal interfaces

["Gordon Mott" <gordon.mott@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm going to stay out of the whole "perils o' portals" discussion other than
to say that
portals tend to make users go all bonkers and crazy-like.  Kind of a
pandora's box
situation.  No matter whether or not existing processes work, and work
WELL....
Mention the word "portal", and all of a sudden it seems that all business
processes
are needlessly deemed "antiquated" and sub-par unless they involve the
portal.

Liferay I've had some experience with, although not on the as/400 platform -
this was
in the course of a conversion from an mv/rdbms to sql server, and a crazy
new datamart
implementation.  Of all the portals I've worked with, liferay I simply find
to be inferior.

You can try out some other solutions here:
http://www.opensourcecms.com/  (click on portals on the left side)

I'd look into other cms/portal implementations to be honest, should you
decide to go that
route.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have been looking at a portal product from Liferay.com   The whole
> idea of an AS/400 user interface using a portal and widgets is fairly
> new to me.   Any comments, suggestions, warnings, spells, and/or
> defenses against the Dark Arts would be most appreciated.
>
> http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/home
>
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