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
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