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eXo upgrades and changes positioning to webOS

11-Jan-2007

Tags: Portals and Content Integration, Marketplace at Large, Selecting Technology, eXo Portal

Open Source vendor eXo recently announced a new version of their portal package. According to eXo Platform CEO Benjamin Mestrallet the new 2.0 release has a 100% AJAX based user interface, which by design should resemble a desktop-like UI. "Current personal pages like Netvibes are also in that trend and introduce more interaction with the user but that is just a transition phase to a full OS environment inside the browser," says Mestrallet. I remain sceptical of portal dashboard interfaces, but take a look at a couple of screenshots of the new release and judge for yourself. As readers of the Enterprise Portals Report know, eXo excels mainly at the simpler scenarios. Version 2, while still only in alpha, does not seem to change this.

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