Why Liferay?

As you should already know since you are reading this blog, there are quite a number of portal solutions out there, two of the most talked about being Liferay Portal and JBoss Portal. So why was Liferay chosen?

InfoWorld has done an excellent comparison of Liferay 4.0 and JBoss 2.2.1 here and Liferay emerged as a clear winner, at least where usability is concerned.

Lennard Fuller also did a comparison of portals like JetSpeed, GridSphere, eXo, StringBeans, along with JBoss and Liferay, which can be found here.

Punit Pandey, who has a pretty good blog on Portals made some suggestions that if you want:

1. portal easy to work with - Stringbeans, and eXo
2. portal with many out-of-the-box portlets - Liferay
3. portal with extendible architecture and standard support - eXo
4. JSR 168 compliant portlet container - eXo, and JBoss

Liferay has came out tops in both comparisons, and most importantly, my boss chose Liferay. :)