Open Source Portal News & Articles

eXo (news, site), the makers of Java middleware and open source Enterprise CMS, got a VC infusion of US$ 6 million. eXo plans to use the money to strengthen its U.S. operations, especially in the areas of sales and marketing. The new Board of Directors should provide the needed executive leadership in the expansion.

Another European company has announced that it is opening a US office. This time the location is San Francisco and the company is open source solution provider eXo (news, site).

This follows the announcement in June this year that Red Hat’s JBoss Portal, eXo's Portal and eXo's Java Client Repository (JCR) were all to be merged into a single product that strikes the right balance of robustness and usability.

It is hardly any wonder then that the new board of advisors that will be helping eXo founder and CEO Benjamin Mestrallet to break into the US has a strong Red Hat presence including Sacha Labourey, a former middleware co-general manager who participated in negotiations on the eXo/Red Hat partnership before joining eXo.

eXo (news, site) has taken its relationship with RedHat one step further today by offering the first major deliverable that adds its enterprise content management and collaboration software into the new JBoss GateIn portal.

Liferay (news, site) Portal Enterprise Edition 5.2 is now available, boosting the speed and feature-set found in the previously released Standard Edition, including benchmarked performance improvements.

Two Java-based portal projects are merging code bases in order to create a best of breed result through their combined strengths: eXo Platform SAS (news, site) and Red Hat's JBoss (news, site).

The goal? To merge JBoss Portal, eXo's Portal and eXo's Java Client Repository (JCR) into a single project that strikes the right balance of robustness and usability.