Punit Pandey's Weblog on Portlets, WSRP, OOA/D and J2EENowadays, I am working on Portlets, WSRP, OOA/D, AOP, Design Patterns, Software Methodologies, J2EE and More. I will try to post related information on this blog.Portal Software: Passing Fad or Real Value- January 28, 2005 Today I found an article on CMS Watch titled Portal Software: Passing Fad or Real Value. I guess the author missed the bigger picture. The most of the logics do not sound convincing to me. Here are few of my observations - Portals should not be evaluated for immediate benefit rather ROI should be calculated over a span of few years. For example author talks about the cost but he forgot the cost of maintaining 100 or 1000 independent applications written for different framework using different.http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/portal_software_passing_fad_or Collaboration Technologies and Portals- January 11, 2005 Collaboration has now become a part of enterprise portals. It is hard to imagine portals without collaborative features. Though the collaboration technologies are the essential part of portals, its maturity seems just tip of the iceberg. Easy integration with portals is missing and generic portlets are not available. Here is the status of few leading portals - IBM WebSphere Portal - The integration is hell lot of time taking and complex, and most of the collaborative portlets are still not...http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/collaboration_technologies_and_portals |