开源企业门户软件市场正起步
作者： CMS
责任编辑： 阚智
来源： 《电脑商情报》
时间： 2006-10-25 23:20
Open source enterprise portal packages are seeing substantial uptake in the marketplace, but vary substantially in features and usability, and tend to target a limited set of simple scenarios, according to CMS Watch. The content management industry analysts released highlights from their semi-annual report on the enterprise portals market, along with highlights from the debut "open source" edition.
With the growth of open-source Java application servers, CMS Watch has found prospective portal customers taking a longer look at open source portals as well. Those customers are finding that open source alternatives can provide an acceptable platform for simple standards-compliant portlets, but may not yet be capable for more complex transactional, process-oriented scenarios.
"The main driving force behind increased adoption of open source portals is still the initial licensee savings," said Janus Boye, a principal analyst with CMS Watch and managing director of Boye IT. "There is also a greater sense that community support may trump commercial support, but open source portal adopters often have to work harder to recreate features found out-of-the-box in commercial alternatives," added Boye.
Open source portal report findings include:
* Open source portal packages tend to excel at scenarios emphasizing web application development and simpler informational portals. They tend not to fit well for more complex, transactional or process-oriented portals and also offer less in the way of pre-packaged integration capabilities.
* All the major open source portal platforms are based on Java, with the exception of Plone, a Python-based alternative. There are no significant Microsoft-based open source portal packages to challenge Office SharePoint.
* Community size and vibrancy varies substantially among open source portal projects. Established projects like Liferay can boast highly dynamic communities, while Apache Jetspeed and Red Hat JBoss Portal have yet to gain significant developer traction.
* Sun is in the midst of releasing its portal offering into open source. Sun's portal is now free of charge, but not all of the source code has been made available yet.
With the growth of open-source Java application servers, CMS Watch has found prospective portal customers taking a longer look at open source portals as well. Those customers are finding that open source alternatives can provide an acceptable platform for simple standards-compliant portlets, but may not yet be capable for more complex transactional, process-oriented scenarios.
"The main driving force behind increased adoption of open source portals is still the initial licensee savings," said Janus Boye, a principal analyst with CMS Watch and managing director of Boye IT. "There is also a greater sense that community support may trump commercial support, but open source portal adopters often have to work harder to recreate features found out-of-the-box in commercial alternatives," added Boye.
Open source portal report findings include:
* Open source portal packages tend to excel at scenarios emphasizing web application development and simpler informational portals. They tend not to fit well for more complex, transactional or process-oriented portals and also offer less in the way of pre-packaged integration capabilities.
* All the major open source portal platforms are based on Java, with the exception of Plone, a Python-based alternative. There are no significant Microsoft-based open source portal packages to challenge Office SharePoint.
* Community size and vibrancy varies substantially among open source portal projects. Established projects like Liferay can boast highly dynamic communities, while Apache Jetspeed and Red Hat JBoss Portal have yet to gain significant developer traction.
* Sun is in the midst of releasing its portal offering into open source. Sun's portal is now free of charge, but not all of the source code has been made available yet.
