Liferay News & Articles

Taking a page from Dropbox and other document sharing services, Liferay announced today a new document sharing add-on for the community edition of its enterprise portal. The add-on, Liferay Sync, allows users to access documents stored in Liferay from their desktop or mobile device.

If you were wondering if growth and interest in open source was just hype, Liferay provided a little additional evidence today that open source is thriving. The open source portal maker has announced its community expanded to 56,000 members in 2011 -- an almost 40% increase over the previous year.

Open source portal provider Liferay has finally released the latest version of its platform, version 6.1 Community Edition. We were able to see a preview of 6.1 at the Liferay West Coast Symposium back in September, and the official release did not disappoint.

On the second day of the Liferay West Coast Symposium, held in Anaheim, Calif., hundreds of attendees had a busy day, from dozens of sessions focused on strategy and implementation with the open-source enterprise portal.

Today is the first day of open-source portal provider Liferay’s West Coast Symposium. Registration isn’t even complete yet and the first announcement of the day is already out. Liferay is releasing a beta version of its next platform release, Liferay Portal 6.1. In addition, the company announced a developer community release of the new Liferay Marketplace.

The economy may be swirling around the drain, but revenues are rosy for Liferay (news, site), a provider of open source portal and enterprise collaboration software. The company announced 50 percent growth in revenue for its core business in the last twelve months.

Welcome to the June 2011 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

After announcing in a blog post last February that it was looking at introducing full compatibility with CMIS standards in its Portal EE 6.1 release, Liferay (news,site) has confirmed that the upcoming release will, in fact, come with that compatibility.

Enterprise open source portal provider Liferay (news, site) has announced improved support for globalization; the company's portal is being translated to over 40 languages.

Welcome to the May 2011 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

Open source portal provider Liferay (news, site) has announced a partnership with MuleSoft, maker of open source Mule ESB and MuleSoft TCat Server, a value-added distribution of Apache Tomcat. Liferay is now offering a Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) bundle with Tcat Server pre-installed and the all-important end-to-end support from one company. The move positions Liferay as an attractive lightweight, open source, middleware platform alternative to expensive enterprise solutions.

If your organization has people with the time, talent, and desire to work together but your budget is short a few zeroes, an open-source alternative may be what you need to fill the collaboration gaps in your enterprise.

Industry analysts are predicting content management will be one of the top five application software growth segments of 2011. Popular open source portal/CMS, Liferay (news, site), is building on its success last year and preparing to take advantage of the expected market growth.

Water&stone recently released the third-annual Open Source CMS Market Share Report. We've already reported which platforms dominated the open source CMS space in 2010, but nobody stays on top forever, especially when the field of play is the web. So, which solutions are challenging the leaders and which are the projects to watch?