Liferay Hits the Road after Liferay Portal 6.1 Surpasses Half a Million Downloads

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Life is treating Liferay very well these days. After only a few months since Liferay Portal 6.1 was introduced, this company witnessed half a million downloads of their 6.1 software. So what does Liferay decide to do next? How does this sound? Take Liferay through a multi-city roadshow so even more business users and organizations become aware of what Liferay has to offer.

Liferay LogoThat's right, if you want to find out more about Liferay Portal you may have an opportunity to visit with the people of Liferay at a city near you. If the roadshow doesn't work for you, you may also want to check Liferay out in the upcoming 2012 CMS Expo in Chicago. During this May event, Liferay is a Featured CMS in one of the best yearly Learning and Business CMS conferences I've ever attended. I think this is a pivotal year for LIferay and you don't want to miss out getting to know this enterprise open source company.

To learn more about the Liferay's Portal 6.1 half a million download as well as the roadshow, I've attached their press release below.

Liferay Portal 6.1 Surpasses Half a Million Downloads in First 3 Months

20-plus city tour planned to showcase newest features for enterprise business users

LOS ANGELES — (March 28, 2012) — Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today that the latest version of its flagship product, Liferay Portal 6.1, hit more than 550,000 downloads in the first three months of its release.

Community Edition of Liferay Portal 6.1 Released

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A few days ago, the Liferay product and engineering teams announced the release of Liferay Portal 6.1 CE. Last fall, during the Liferay West Coast Symposium, CMS Report was able to get a sneak peak of the features that Liferay Portal 6.1 had to offer. We were impressed then and we're even more impressed now with the changes that have been made since then.

Liferay Portal ships with broad product capabilities and provides more function than you would expect from a traditional portal. Besides having the capability as a web platform, Liferay Portal is also capable of supporting content and document management (including Microsoft office integration). Additional capabilities include:

  • Web Publishing and Shared Workspaces
  • Enterprise Collaboration
  • Social Networking and Mashups
  • Identity Management

Liferay logo and bannerLiferay issues their portal software under two licenses, an open source community edition and an enterprise edition. The Liferay community edition we're talking about in this article is specifically designated as Liferay 6.1 CE GA1.  In addition to the numerous bugs that have been fixed since 6.0 GA4, many new features and improvements have gone into this release.

Liferay Marketplace and Liferay Portal 6.1

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Here at the Liferay West Coast Symposium, Bryan Cheung (CEO) and Paul Hinz (CMO) just announced the newest and upcoming version of the company’s Liferay Portal 6.1, as well as the developer community release of the new Liferay Marketplace. Liferay, Inc. hopes these moves represents a showing of strong new convergence of portal, web content management and modular applications for Liferay products.

Bryan Cheung presenting at Liferay WCS 2011

Personally, my focus in this article was going to be soley on Liferay Portal 6.1 but after talking to some of Liferay's partners and users, I've been convinced that the Marketplace is going to be a big deal for almost everyone involved with Liferay. The goal of the marketplace is to not only build better apps for the end user but also to "get everyone to share" among the community. Below you'll find discussion on the Liferay Marketplace and in the second section discussion of new features found in Liferay Portal 6.1.

Liferay Marketplace

Liferay Marketplace provides Liferay’s worldwide community of developers and partners a channel for selling applications and plugins to Liferay’s nearly 1 million installations worldwide (yea, that's a big number).  First previewed at the Liferay East Coast Symposium in May, Marketplace hits the first phase of its launch at the West Coast Symposium with a developer-ready release, which includes a system developer kit for app development.