[opencms-dev] opencms verse JBoss Portal Server?

[Christoph Schönfeld]

Hi Mick,

there is no simple answer to this question. It depends on what you want 
to do. Portal software and WCMS software have been converging in the 
recent years, which unfortunately does not make the decision easier.

My company decided to use OpenCms for a customer information portal 
project recently after we made a product comparison of OpenCms, JBoss 
Portal and several other systems including Liferay, Lenya, Typo3, 
Joomla, Daisy, and Drupal. The comparison was based on the special 
requirements of the project. You will, at least to some extent, 
certainly have to do some analysis as well.

First we defined our requirements and weighed them with values of 5, 10 
or 15. Then we judged how each system fulfilled each requirement with 
values from 0 to 2. All these values were put into a spreadsheet. We 
placed the sum of the products of weight and fulfillment values for each 
requirement at the bottom line which gave the total score for each 
product. This made it easy for us to judge how the systems compared to 
each other.

The following resources provides useful during my research.

- Slava Asipenko, Yuval Zukerman, OpenCms 6.0: A Review, , 
http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/152-OpenCms-6?source=RSS
- Janus Boye, Portal Software: Passing Fad or Real Value?, 2005, 
http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/120-Case-Against-Portals
- Mike Heck, JBoss and Liferay provide open portals to SOA, 2006, 
http://www.computerwoche.de/index.cfm?pid=362&pk=3157&opv=tb
- CMS Matrix, 2006, http://www.cmsmatrix.org


Best regards,
Christoph

PS: Btw, JBoss Portal achieved the least score in our comparison. Mainly 
due to the lacking search function which was high priority for us. From 
the bare spreadsheed, Drupal won but chosed OpenCms because it was the 
strongest candidate in the Java sector.