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We have been very excited to see so many people interested in the last announcement about the partnership between eXo and JBoss. We thank you all for your interest and your positive comments regarding the future of eXo Platform and its solutions. Here is the summary of what you could read online:

From the JBoss Newsletter:

“A few weeks ago, Red Hat announced that the JBoss Community Portal project has formed a strategic partnership with eXo, producers of the eXo Portal. eXo will be contributing its portal project to a new joint open source project sponsored by the JBoss Community, and the new combined project will leverage the best elements and technologies from the existing JBoss Portal and eXo Portal projects. “With this unique collaboration, portal technology takes a strong step forward, and will accelerate the adoption of open source portals into the mainstream enterprise marketplace”, said project lead Thomas Heute. You can find out more on this strategic partnership in Thomas’s “JBoss Portal – eXo Portal FAQ” page.”

From JBoss RedHat:

Partnership Analysis and Blogs Reactions:

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Some nice and funny tweets about the partnership:

chanezon : “http://bit.ly/n9W6F Exo-JBoss Portal, 2 companies, one partnership: congrats @exoplatform, Benjamin & @julienviet.”

essobedo : “Arrival of @aheritier at eXo and Announcement of the partnership with JBoss, it looks like a Christmas day for eXo!!”

eXoPlatform : “JBoss + eXo = Open Source advantage” from Rich Sharples, Director of Product Management for JBoss : http://blog.softwhe …”

dbaeli : “So happy of #exo #jboss partnership, a big step forward. @benjmestrallet @julienviet (and co) you did a great work. Now let’s make it real.”

julienviet : “eXo / JBoss partnership fever reminds me France-Brésil 98!!!!!”

This partnership is the beginning of a great adventure for us and more will come soon, as all our product line will benefit from this major partnership. And why not, it might be the beginning of our american adventure as well !

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I would like to shed some light on the partnership between eXo and my former company JBoss a division of Red Hat.

A bit of history

Last year I resigned from the JBoss Portal project lead position and accepted a product  manager position for the eXo Portal project.

I founded the JBoss Portal project in 2004 from scratch and built an enterprise portal server during those four years. The last community release I was involved in was JBoss Portal 2.7, though I did not stay long enough for the final release. Since then, the project has been under the good guidance of Thomas Heute, who had joined me on the JBoss Portal project in 2005.

My first job at eXo was to take over from Benjamin Mestrallet the task of finalizing the eXo Portal 2.5 release. eXo Platform growth during the past two years was sustained and Benjamin could no longer focus on the technical aspects of eXo Portal. Even though most of the features were already developed in 2.5, I was able to bring an important feature of my own: Right To Left support, it was a good way to get my hands into the project. I also provided some important performance improvements that were confirmed by our QA labs later but we did not make it public.

Two companies, two projects

JBoss Portal and eXo Portal in essence do the same job: aggregating applications to the user desktop, however both focus on different strengths. The main difference between products comes from the nature of the companies.

JBoss is a middleware centric company that cares about delivering servers for various needs. JBoss Portal is designed with the framework and modularity approach and has been used for that purpose. It belongs to the JBoss culture to create software in that manner.

eXo Platform is an application centric company that cares about delivering collaborative applications to the enterprise. eXo Portal is the foundation of a comprehensive suite of solution focusing on enterprise collaboration such as eXo WCM, eXo ECM, eXo CS to name a few of them. The main force lies in the interactions and integrations between the different products that are all based on eXo JCR.

Two partners, one project

I am personally very excited about the collaboration between the two projects for several reasons.

Firstly that could have happened before, as informal discussions started in 2004 between eXo Platform and JBoss. But that did not work out, as I think they were too informal to lead to something concrete.

It’s very exciting to create a product with the most talented people you know. During five years, I built a fantastic team to work with me on the JBoss Portal project. In 2006, I was able to spent two weeks with Benjamin in San Francisco (for a JSR286 meeting and the JavaOne conference), where we had a productive time comparing our points of view. That’s a great opportunity to involve those persons into the same effort.

Finally our partnership makes a lot of sense to everyone: me, companies, community and customers. We now have one killer project involving the best teams I’ve worked worldwide with the goal of delivering simply the best portal product in the market.

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