Worth a look, jakarta project called: POI: Poor obfuscation Implementation, referring to the quality of file archiving by Msft Office.
Take a look at HDF "horrible document format" which handles MS Word files.
Do you have to choose the same solution for both portals? Do both portals need to consume the same set of services? Do these services already exist? Are portlet standards an issue (sun vs. oasis)? Do the portlets need to provide the security or be compatible with an existing security framework? Do you have time to market considerations? Platform considerations? What's the usage going to be like?
Although portals attempt to do it all, there is no portal solution that resolves all issues. If there is limited functionality and you have time to market issues, jetspeed is a favorable choice. Webapp installation and deployment is probably the easiest of the bunch.
If you have only a community requirement, consider slashcode or phpnuke. These are probably the industry's best and free is a good price. However, these are primarily community portals, additional functionality is limited.
Plumtree excels at community + a little more. There seems to be scalability issues, and it does not provide a true highly available solution.
BEA does not have the same community support, but excels at it's integration with other features (J2EE, BPM, personalization).
These are all customizable, but the more you customize, the more difficult it is to upgrade. BEA seems to be the most customizable, but requires the most time to bring a portal up to production.
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Worth a look, jakarta project called: POI: Poor obfuscation Implementation, referring to the quality of file archiving by Msft Office.
Take a look at HDF "horrible document format" which handles MS Word files.
Do you have to choose the same solution for both portals?
Do both portals need to consume the same set of services?
Do these services already exist?
Are portlet standards an issue (sun vs. oasis)?
Do the portlets need to provide the security or be compatible with an existing security framework?
Do you have time to market considerations?
Platform considerations?
What's the usage going to be like?
Although portals attempt to do it all, there is no portal solution that resolves all issues. If there is limited functionality and you have time to market issues, jetspeed is a favorable choice. Webapp installation and deployment is probably the easiest of the bunch.
If you have only a community requirement, consider slashcode or phpnuke. These are probably the industry's best and free is a good price. However, these are primarily community portals, additional functionality is limited.
Plumtree excels at community + a little more. There seems to be scalability issues, and it does not provide a true highly available solution.
BEA does not have the same community support, but excels at it's integration with other features (J2EE, BPM, personalization).
These are all customizable, but the more you customize, the more difficult it is to upgrade. BEA seems to be the most customizable, but requires the most time to bring a portal up to production.
on ScreenSavers he mention ed a target price of $299.