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Liferay Opening Up More to the UK Market
Toolinux (Français) / May 3, 2012
"The company opened a new office in England, having recently appointed a Director of Operations Europe following new strategic hires to 'support the key European markets.'"
Sun Co-founder's WayIn Launches End-To-End Platform For Easy Twitter Polling
TechCrunch / April 17, 2012
"The TwitPolls team tells us that, within 48 hours of launch, brands like the NFL, PGA, WebMd, UnderArmour, EMC, the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Washington Redskins, Texas Christian University, and Liferay had begun using the platform to communicate with their followers."
TwitPolls Launched by Wayin to Allow Twitter Users and Brands to Engage with and Gather Real-Time Feedback from Twitter Followers
MarketWatch / April 12, 2012
"'We've developed an enormous worldwide community of over 65,000 developers, and we're always searching for the best ways to interact with them through social media,' said Paul Hinz, Chief Marketing Officer for Liferay, Inc. 'TwitPolls allows us to regularly engage our community by posting questions that help us determine feature priorities, event locations and more. This ultimately helps us to create a better product while also building greater brand awareness and loyalty.'"
Every enterprise needs an employee portal. Or do they?
TheServerSide.com / April 12, 2012
"If your employee portal package doesn't come with standard wiki functionality like the Liferay portal does, you're either going to have to develop the thing from scratch, or fork over a million dollars to buy a prepackaged solution, such as the IBM Connections or IBM Quickr tools that make it possible to use a wiki. Why is a wiki so hard for everyone but Liferay to implement properly and freely? "
The Oasis Web Experience Management Initiative (WEMI) Kicks Off in Copenhage
CMS Wire / April 10, 2012
"It was a who's who of Web Content Management. Representatives from the PHP (drupal, TYPO3), DOTNet (DotNetNuke, Sitecore, Telerik) and Java (Hippo, Liferay, Jahia, Magnolia, Adobe, Terminalfour, GX, SDL Tridion, Enonic)."
Liferay Hits the Road after Liferay Portal 6.1 Surpasses Half a Million Downloads
CMS Report / March 30, 2012
"I think this is a pivotal year for LIferay and you don't want to miss out getting to know this enterprise open source company."
Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in April 2012
CMS Wire / March 29, 2012
"In March, the folks at Liferay reached over 550,000 downloads of Liferay Portal 6.1, which has been out for three months. This is more than double the download rate of the previous version."
About Ten Reasons Why WebSphere Can't Compete with Liferay Portal
TheServerSide.com / March 21, 2012
"A Liferay conference is different. At a Liferay conference it's more of a love in."
11 Promising Enterprise Social Networks
CIO / March 20, 2012
"As the demand for enterprise collaboration continues to grow, more businesses are looking to internal social networks to manage workflow, foster collaboration and improve innovation."
Ten Reasons to Love Liferay
TheServerSide.com / by Vivek Agarwal, Xtivia / March 20, 2012
" ... v6.0 and v6.1 have only solidified our preference for Liferay as the best enterprise portal platform for our customers."
New Ambitions for Liferay in France
Collaboratif-info (Français) / March 16, 2012
"After Germany, Spain and Britain, Liferay opens an office in France, the second European market in terms of potential for the Open Source publisher specializing in portals. Marc Brassier is the first local employee of the U.S. publisher."
Insights, Influences From Vendors Behind Social Business Solutions #gartnerpcc
CMS Wire / March 14, 2012
"James Falkner, Liferay's Community Manager spoke with us about the influence that the open source community has had on helping them continually evolve tools and solutions."
Nuxeo, Liferay Offer Cross-Platform Integration via CMIS, OpenSocial
CMS Wire / March 14, 2012
"The new CMIS-based connector enables users to access documents, images and other content stored in a Nuxeo repository with Liferay's Documents and Media Gallery without complex custom integration or replicating content."
Nuxeo teams with Liferay, uses CMIS integration
FierceContentManagement / February 23, 2012
"Today, Nuxeo announced an alliance with Liferay. Both are open source products taking advantage of the CMIS standard to integrate the two systems."
Liferay Portal 6.1: Setting the Standard for Enterprise Portal Offerings
The Server Side / February 23, 2012
" ... for my money, the real noteworthy feature of Liferay Portal is how easy it is to install, and how feature full the product is once you get it installed and configured."
Installing Liferay Portal 6.1. From download to install in ten minutes.
The Server Side / February 23, 2012
"Take a look at Liferay Portal 6.1. The dowload is only about 250 megs in size ... when you're done, you've got a fast, slick and full featured Enterprise Portal at the ready."
Liferay Updates Web Developer Content Tool
Dr. Dobb's / February 23, 2012
"Advanced customization functions for programmers are offered through the Liferay Developer Studio product and Liferay 6.1 EE also offers page templates and multiple site and page version editing."
Liferay Portal 6.1 EE Improves Personalization & Collaboration Capabilities
CMS Wire / February 22, 2012
"The release fixes several defects and introduces some impressive new features that make using the portal more efficient."
Social Umami and Liferay Portal
CMS Report / February 15, 2012
"Social Umami is ... a great example of what Liferay can do for social networking and shows that Liferay is much more than a portal."
Liferay Releases Dropbox Style Synchronization for Enterprises
CMS Wire / February 1, 2012
"Countless users have embraced private cloud services like Box.net and Dropbox for making their content accessible everywhere. Despite the popularity of these services, most enterprise content platforms don't support similar features, but now Liferay does."
Liferay's Open Source Community Thrives
CMS Wire / January 24, 2012
"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."
Liferay 6.1 portal software gets new setup wizard
heise (Deutsch) / January 11, 2012
"The 6.1 update includes a new setup wizard aimed at simplifying first-time configuration for new instances of Liferay."
Liferay Impresses With 6.1 Release
CMS Wire / January 10, 2012
"Users will likely be pleased with all the goodies that Liferay has delivered for the new year."
Community Edition of Liferay Portal 6.1 Released
CMS Report / January 8, 2012
"Last fall, during the Liferay West Coast Symposium, CMS Report was able to get a sneak peak of the features that Liferay Portal 6.1 had to offer. We were impressed then and we're even more impressed now with the changes that have been made since then."
Liferay Community Edition 6.1 released
CMS Critic / January 7, 2012
"Version 6.1 brings with it a huge list of new features."
Open Source CMS Continues To Dominate
Network World / November 28, 2011
"Once again the report highlights what a strong lineup of open source CMS solutions are available. The folks at water&stone looked at 35 open source CMS, but only picked the top 20 for the report. Again another indicator of the vibrancy of this market."
Information Management on Demand: the Cloud Gives Rise to the Enterprise CMS Marketplace
CMS Wire / November 28, 2011
"Vendors such as OpenText, Liferay, EMC and DotNetNuke view their marketplace as an important way to accelerate product adoption."
DotNetNuke, Drupal, Liferay, and SharePoint in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals
CMS Report / November 9, 2011
"Out of the four portals I've focused on in this post, I would suggest if you're looking for a new portal that you take a serious look at Liferay."
Solutions Providers See Demand for SharePoint Alternatives (registration required)
TechTarget / October 20, 2011
"Chris Stavros, technology strategist at Level Studios ... said Liferay's framework for portals, content management and collaboration provides a better set of tools for social networking. He said SharePoint's social capabilities -- wikis, blogs and forums, for example -- aren't particularly sophisticated."
12 Hot Products to See at Oracle OpenWorld 2011
CRN / September 30, 2011
"Liferay will be demonstrating Liferay Portal 6.1, the newest version of the company's flagship portal product in booth #110 in the Moscone South Hall."
ECM Expands Its Reach
KM World / September 29, 2011
"Liferay Portal is used as the interface through which editors update the content of the Sesame Street website, and stores the metadata for the website's content as well as some of the images ... The site now has a consistent look across all its pages and is managed entirely in house."
The Comfort of Normal Business
Open Source Delivers / September 28, 2011
"There's a disarming honesty to everyone on the Liferay team. If they're not certain of something, they say so; if something is delayed or went wrong, they admit it. It's the kind of attitude that draws honest businesspeople to them."
Liferay Portal Adds Social Features, Marketplace
Information Week / September 26, 2011
"In addition to enhancing the basic platform, Liferay hopes to get other developers to enrich it with the addition of a marketplace on the 'app store' model."
Liferay opens Liferay Marketplace to developers
Fierce Content Management / September 24, 2011
"... Liferay CMO Paul Hinz is hoping his development community will use this capability to build web applications on top of the Liferay foundation and provide tools at a reasonable cost for the Liferay community."
Liferay West Coast Symposium 2011 Day Two
CMS Wire / September 23, 2011
"Attendees at the Liferay conference were not at a loss for things to do."
Liferay's West Coast Symposium - Day One
CMS Critic / September 22, 2011
"With an estimated attendance of 300+, this year's West Coast Symposium has seen tremendous growth from the previous year."
Liferay Proves That the Death of the Portal Server is Highly Over-Stated
The Server Side / September 21, 2011
"If attendance at this year's Liferay West Coast Symposium proves nothing else, it proves that the death of the portal server is highly overstated."
Liferay Marketplace and Liferay Portal 6.1
CMS Report / September 21, 2011
"After talking to some of Liferay's partners and users, I've been convinced that the Marketplace is going to be a big deal for almost everyone involved with Liferay."
Liferay Portal Revenues Surge as Pressure Builds on IT Depts
CMS Wire / August 9, 2011
"The economy may be swirling around the drain, but revenues are rosy for Liferay, 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."
CIGNEX Organizes Lunch Seminars on Enterprise-ready Open Source Software Solutions
TMC Net / July 25, 2011
"The speakers at these seminars included prominent Open Source leaders such as John Powell, president & CEO, Alfresco; Bryan Cheung, CEO, Liferay; and Finn Lehmann, VP-Sales & Marketing, Ephesoft."
Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in July 2011
CMS Wire / June 30, 2011
"In June, the folks at Liferay announced that the upcoming Liferay Portal EE 6.1 will offer full CMIS compatibility. The existing version, Liferay Portal EE 6.0, does offer partial CMIS compatibility already."
Hippo is expanding in Germany with new partner Satzmedia
CMS Critic / June 29, 2011
"With the integration into Liferay, Hippo supports the underlying portal architecture of alixa®and therefore makes it an attractive alternative for the simple alixa®build-in CMS."
Liferay's Enterprise Portal 6.1 Supports CMIS, Integrates Enterprise CMS Document Repositories
CMS Wire / June 21, 2011
"This means that Portal EE 6.1 will be able to integrate a lot easier with the document repositories of third-party enterprise content management systems, and in this regard it has specifically mentioned SharePoint and Documentum."
Liferay Now Available in 40 Languages, Thanks to its Community
CMS Wire / June 14, 2011
"Organizations using Liferay and faced with the challenge of supporting a global audience now have a little more help from Liferay and its open source community."
Liferay, MuleSoft Announce Partnership on Tcat Server
The VAR Guy / May 9, 2011
"...this most recent news from Liferay and MuleSoft underlines the demand for VARs within the open source channel."
Liferay/Mulesoft Integration Provides Low-Cost Enterprise Java Alternative
CMS Wire / April 27, 2011
"If you'd been considering making a move from a big Java EE vendor or even looking for a viable open source alternative to JBoss, you know have one — plus a portal."
New Community Leadership Program by Liferay Rewards Community Members
infoTECH / March 24, 2011
"A rich and multifarious group of developers, encompassing users and partners to hobbyists and software architects, has formed this dynamic leadership team."
Liferay Forms Open Source Dream Team
CMS Wire / March 24, 2011
"Liferay understands that continuing community engagement is critical for the platform's growth and success."
myClin Founder Discusses What's in His Cloud Stack
OStatic / March 7, 2011
"As much as we can, we try to leverage enterprise class OS packages, that starts with CentOS 5 on all our EC2 servers, Liferay Portal 6 (which includes a significant stack of OS libraries of its own) for all our application services and MySQL for database."
Open Source Apps: Build Enterprise Class Portal with Liferay
PCQuest / March 3, 2011
"Liferay Potal is an Open Source enterprise portal framework that offers content management, web publishing, forums, collaboration workspace and social networking tools, all under one roof."
More Companies Embracing Open Source Means Explosive Market Growth
CMS Wire / February 25, 2011
"2010 was a phenomenal year for many open source projects. Java portal maker Liferay had a 100% growth in revenue and staff headcount. The company also expanded its partner network to 89."
Open Source Go-To-Market Success: Liferay CEO Bryan Cheung
Sramana Mitra / February 18, 2011
"People stay with Liferay because they have a passion for technology, but ultimately they came to a place where they could do more than earn a paycheck. They want to work for a company that is doing something beyond just building another corporate business."
Liferay 2011 Plans Include Microblogging and an Apps Marketplace
CMS Wire / February 7, 2011
"The Java-based Liferay portal is somewhat of a rarity in a Web CMS market dominated by platforms using web languages like PHP and Ruby. The team seems to be proving that it has no trouble finding its place and providing some notable competition."