Liferay/MuleSoft Integration Provides Low-Cost Enterprise Java Alternative

Open source portal provider Liferay (news, site) has announced a partnership with MuleSoft, maker of open source Mule ESB and MuleSoft TCat Server, a value-added distribution of Apache Tomcat. Liferay is now offering a Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) bundle with Tcat Server pre-installed and the all-important end-to-end support from one company. The move positions Liferay as an attractive lightweight, open source, middleware platform alternative to expensive enterprise solutions.

Liferay Plus Mulesoft: Low-Cost Open Source Web Middleware

Liferay has been in around for over a decade, reports more than 4 million downloads and a quarter million deployments. The platform started out as a pure portal play. However, the company is gradually moving its product toward becoming a development platform for websites and applications — at a competitive price point.
Users can deploy Liferay to any Java web container, such as IBM WebSphere or JBoss, but when combined with popular free open source Tomcat, it provides a low-cost web content delivery option. Michael Coté of Redmonk wrote that customers who deploy Liferay to Tomcat are showing savings of up to 93% vs. platforms from Oracle and IBM and has many of the same features of the big vendors. Not a bad accomplishment for an open-source portal company.

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