New SharePoint Console from BEA AquaLogic

Last week portal vendor BEA announced new products for Microsoft SharePoint integration. The new SharePoint Console "...is designed to help provide support for integrating and governing Windows SharePoint Services within a BEA portal deployment." This is an interesting though perhaps inevitable development, where BEA recognizes the tremendous impact of SharePoint in the enterprise, while still fighting to justify its own portal offerings. Of course, portals can serve quite different business purposes, and SharePoint has managed to achieve viral growth among workgroups. Although BEA simply mentions "BEA Portal" it is perhaps a meaningful sign that this new module comes from the AquaLogic product family (a.k.a., the former Plumtree Portal which is being kept as a separate product), and not the WebLogic family.

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