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Is Oracle switching portals?

5-May-2007

If you want to buy an enterprise portal from Oracle these days, you have two choices, neither of which seems ideal:

  • The new Oracle WebCenter suite, which is less than 6 months old and remains quite underbaked. This product has seen only very limited experience in the market
  • The old Oracle Portal, which appears on the edge of retirement

A quick look at Oracle's website reveals that the term "Portal" takes you to a page on Oracle WebCenter, while the newest information on the page for Oracle Portal dates to June 2006. We've previously told the tale of two Oracle portals. Competing vendor BEA also has two portal products and customer bases, because of its Plumtree acquisition, while Oracle has developed both its portals internally. We acknowledge that different use cases often do indeed require different technical approaches, but Oracle seems to be changing horses here rather than adding. Meanwhile, if you are testing WebCenter, I'd welcome hearing how it's going.

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