Thursday, April 07, 2005

Say Goodbye To Portal Servers

One of my client broke news that they are abandoning Plumtree and would be going with Websphere. Sad as it is I became disturbed and started wondering, "Why Organizations Switch Portal Vendors?". Immediately this research work from Forrester came to my attention, "Say Goodbye To Portal Servers"

I still have to get a hold of this paper, so, I can not comment how strong this case has been made by Nate Root. Though he tries to say it all in the Executive Summary. In his own words;

"Vendors like Plumtree Software and Epicentric created the portal server market in the late 1990s by offering servers with technical features that just didn't exist within firms' existing IT infrastructure. Now those features — like UI abstraction, integration, workflow, and delegated administration — have been co-opted, improved, and embedded in general-purpose infrastructure platforms from vendors like IBM, BEA Systems, Oracle, and Microsoft. The standalone portal server market is gone, absorbed into infrastructure vendors' app server platforms and emerging interaction platforms."

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