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:

From Finance Oriented Medias:

Websites which displayed the partnership:

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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eXo Platform will be at the LinuxTag 2009 event, which is the most important place for Linux and open source software in Europe. In 2009, the 15th LinuxTag presents news for professional users, decision makers, developers, beginners and the Linux community - from 24th until 27th June on the Fairground in Berlin.

It will be the perfect occasion to share about the last developments made on the eXo stack and more particularly on its portal, which development will be merged with the JBoss Portal project.

It is with pleasure and passion that eXo experts will answer your questions regarding eXo Platform activities as well as the Open Source market.

So, come to visit us! We are looking forward to discussing with you!

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The Cast Codeurs team, the French Java Technology Podcast Site, has interviewed eXo Portal Product Manager Julien Viet, and JBoss Portal Project Lead, Thomas Heute. During this interview, in French, they have talk about:

• Enterprise Portal Definitions and Key Features
• Targeted Audience for Portals
• How to Integrate Applications in Your Portal?
• The eXo and JBoss Portals Merge.

More information about this Podcast available on the Cast Codeur site:

• Les Cast Codeurs Podcast - Episode 6 - Portal

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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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This event, will be the end of the “Spring US Trip” for the eXo team, and this is a good moment for us to present key messages around our product and business strategy. Stay tune, more news to come during the week.

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To be informed about our presence there and about the event, you can:

• Follow us on the micro-blogging service Twitter: Benjamin & Tugdual
• Follow the event on Twitter too: http://twitter.com/JavaOneConf
• Listen to the JavaOne radio: http://java.sun.com/javaone/#blogtalk

Come and see the latest eXo Platform features, and other OW2 projects.

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eXo Booth with Benjamin and Oualid

eXo Booth

Benjamin Mestrallet animating a conference about “Collaborative Portals and Content Management: Can they be separated ?“

Oualid Chaker presenting eXo products

The needs of the companies in the Middle East and African region on document management, record management and collaborative platform is huge. The enterprise content management is an important subject for the government and companies in Tunisia, and that’s why the exhibition has been covered by news on the the Tunisian TV where we can see eXo booth and an interview of our engineer in Tunis, Zyed. You can watch this video, in arabic:

eXo in Tunisian TV News from Oualid Chaker on Vimeo.

eXo in Tunisian TV News from Oualid Chaker on Vimeo.

More photos of this event: http://tinyurl.com/lywjnk

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Tugdual Grall - eXo VP of Product and Business Strategy - will be part of the OpenSocial in the Enterprise Google IO talk.

Benjamin Mestrallet, eXo Platform SAS CEO will also be at the Moscone Center on May 27 and 28

See you there

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Rencontrez eXo Platform au salon Documentation 2009 (stand 104) qui se tiendra ces mercredi 20 et jeudi 21 Mai à Tunis (SOUKRA ExpoCenter) afin d’aborder des sujets liés aux problématiques de gestion de contenus. eXo Platform apporte aux entreprises des solutions fiables au travers d’une large gamme de produits dans des domaines variés. À l’occasion de ce salon, Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO et fondateur d’eXo Platform, donnera une conférence sur le thème “Les Portails Collaboratifs et la Gestion de Contenu : Peut-on les dissocier ?“. Oualid Chaker, directeur d’eXo MEA, animera aussi un atelier autour des solutions logicielles d’eXo Platform avec des retours sur expérience.

C’est avec plaisir et passion que nous répondrons à vos interrogations et problématiques. Le programme détaillé de nos interventions est diponible sur http://tinyurl.com/qczrun, n’hésitez pas à venir nous rencontrer.

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Meet eXo Platform at Documentation 2009 exhibition (booth 104) to be held on Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 May in Tunis (SOUKRA ExpoCenter) to discuss content management issues. eXo Platform brings to  enterprise reliable solutions through a broad range of products in various areas : Collaborative Tools, Knowledge Management, Workflow and Process Management, Archiving and Records Management, Life Cycle Management of Information, Content providers, Catalog management, Document Intranet , ECM, Enterprise portals, and Web content management. At this exhibition, Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO and founder of eXo Platform, will give a conference about “Collaborative Portals and Content Management: Can they be separated ?“. Oualid Chaker, Director of eXo MEA, will animate a workshop on eXo Platform enterprise products and solutions with return on experience.

It is with pleasure and passion that we will respond to your questions and issues. The detailed program (french) of our interventions is available on http://tinyurl.com/qczrun, feel free to come meet us.

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Benjamin Mestrallet took part of radio show on the famous french radio BFM with some entrepreneurs and VCs

Listen to the podcast or download it (in French)

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• Solutions Intranet 12 and 13 May, Paris
• Documentation 2009 20 and 21 May, Tunis
• Google IO 27 and 28 May, San Francisco
• JavaOne 2,3 and 6 June, San Francisco
• LinuxDay 3,4, 5 June, Geneva
• Coter club 16, 17 June, Strasbourg
• LinuxTag 24,25,26 June Berlin
• Universite du SI 1, 2 July Paris

As you can see, we are quite busy…. see you there!

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Through constant innovation, eXo Platform brings companies new ways to work. So, a strong social side has been added to its products in order to enable organizations to work closer and to understand strengths and skills of every collaborator. This, combined with virtualization capabilities and a SAAS package still in development, enables eXo Platform to provide a new generation of collaborative solutions that meet today’s companies needs for IT systems.

The Gartner’s “Cool Vendors” report is designed to “highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.”

In period of crisis, IT managers are looking more carefully for alternative solutions, like the Open Source ones, to traditional and common products such as MS SharePoint.

Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO and Founder of eXo Platform, explains: “eXo is an Open Source company and provides solutions that can be highly integrated with existing IT environments, which is not always the case with other products of the market. Our major customers chose eXo for this reason as well as our ability to work on projects involving thousands of users.”

More than being a simple competitor to MS SharePoint, eXo Platform stands as an innovator on its market and brings together three key trends: Open Source, Basic Content Services and social software. eXo product line provide an open alternative, thanks to standards compliance, to Microsoft SharePoint by offering an open source based document management system, a standards-based portal and a collaboration (both asynchronous and real time) platform for medium to large companies.

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To structure eXo Platform growth

eXo Platform is facing a strong growth of its activities since its creation. In order to sustain its activities, eXo Platform always hired the most talented people, even in periods of crisis. So, famous personalities from the Open Source world and the software development joined eXo Platform, such as Julien Viet, now eXo Portal manager, and Tugdual Grall, now business and product strategy manager.

Nowadays, as eXo Platform reaches a critical size worldwide, it becomes necessary for the company to set up a financial strategy serving the growth and enabling the organization to structure its financial management on a long-term basis.

Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO and founder of eXo Platform, highlights these needs: « The company is already standing in many countries and we are still developing our activities worldwide. Moreover, our growth is still increasing, helped by a passion stirred over the Open Source. In this context, we need to strengthen our financial basis in order to structure and perpetuate our development on the long term. Véronika, who has been hired from the Boston Consulting Group, is a finance expert with an international profile and skills in enterprise strategy and organization. I am sure she will bring a lot to the development of eXo Platform. »

Véronika Mazour nominated CFO

Graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, école des Mines de Paris and from the political studies institute of Paris, Véronika is a multi skilled financial expert who acquired a strong experience in renowned companies around the globe. She worked in financial audit at BNP Paribas, acquired experience in Private Equity at Goldman Sachs and has experience in enterprise strategy at Boston Consulting Group.

Véronika Mazour now joins eXo Platform with the objective to structure and supervise the finance management of the company as well as to set up a financial strategy on a long-term basis.

Véronika points out the facts that motivated her to join eXo Platform: « eXo Platform today is an emerging star on its market. The company has a huge potential and needs to strengthen its finance. My role will be to structure the organization and its financial management as well as insuring its perpetual development. It is a very exciting challenge and I hope my experience will contribute to the eXo Platform success story. »

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BarCamp spirit from the banner:

There were about 250 persons with 38 topics including Entrepreneurs Academy, Cryptology & Steganology,Marketing Law & Vietnam online market, Improving IT education in Vietnam, Enterprise 2.0, OpenSocial Application Development, Social Media in Vietnam, Social Media in Haiku’s way, Online Dating Service, etc.,

Topic board:

The official time for entrance registration is 8.30 am. However, at 8.00 am there were crowded people registering:

Everyone was gathering around at the assembly room:

eXoers at BarCamp Hanoi 2009:

Hung and Brice:

Brice with Enterprise 2.0 session talk:

Yesterday the weather was really hot, especially at the lunch time. The BarCamp Hanoi 2009’s organization was quite good, everything was not out of control. Everyone seemed satisfied with the organization then.

Organizers:

Some people couldn’t attend but they could know all the session talks from live schedule and twitter channel with #barcamphanoi hash tag.

eXo is glad to sponsor BarCamp Hanoi 2009 with RMIT Hanoi, VinaGame, Baomoi, Moore Corp and Vega Corp and thank our organizers so much, thank you, guys for coming and sharing your ideas with eXo Platform about our business and products in Vietnam, thank for your suggestion to improve our products. What’s next? We can look forward to BarCamp Saigon at the end of this year.

eXo’s presentations:

BarCamp Hanoi 2009 Resources:

- Pictures: flickr, anhso
- Presentations: slideshare (BarCamp Hanoi’s presentaions are put on the spotlight section - slideshare’s home page)

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This release contains over 80 usability improvements gathered from user feedback.
Main new features of Forum are :

• User Profile and Avatar management
• IP Banning and Logging
• Enhanced Bookmarkability
• Enhanced Watch

Additionally, FAQ application just became more participative :

• Question details
• Categories panes for easier browsing
• Comments and votes
• Open discussion in forum
• Multiple answers per question
• RSS support
• Watches management

As usual, you can download it here, read the release notes and wiki or simply try the Live Demo.

Enjoy!

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BarCamp Hanoi 2 (2009) will be held on April 19th, 2009 at RMIT International University, Hanoi Campus.

BarCamp Hanoi 1 was successfully organized in eXo Platform SEA offices in 2007 and eXo is now proud to be one of the first sponsor for this 2nd BarCamp in Hanoi. The eXo guys are looking forward to meeting people interested about IT in Vietnam as well as the Open Source world where eXo stands as an influent innovator.

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. This is a chance for many people (CEO, CTO, developers, etc.,) to share ideas and talk about anything they like, but mostly in the information technology area: web 2.0, collaboration, web services, tech trends, products promotion, etc.,

As a sponsor for this major event, eXo Platform hope that we will contribute our effort in Vietnamese IT, to promote a really helpful activity and to have chance recruiting talented people working for our company in Hanoi.

For more details of BarCamp Hanoi 2, please refer to: http://www.barcamphanoi.org.

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eXo has been ranked n1!

Other projects like Talend, VLC or XWiki are also in the list.

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This release contains many improvements gathered from user feedback over 100 bugfixes. Among other things you will notably find :

• Improved overall performance
• Improved emails checking in Mail
• Improved contacts integration in Mail
• Improved tags support in AddressBook
• Improved import/export events in Calendar
• Improved event invitations in Calendar

As usual, you can download it here, read the release notes and wiki or simply try the Live Demo.

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Next gen Portals: how OpenSocial standard adds social to the mix
Speaker: Tugdual Grall, eXo Platform
Schedule: April 2, 01:30 - 02:00
Abstract: OpenSocial a new way to develop for portals and adding social to the mix. Abstract: OpenSocial is a standard for the social web managed by the OpenSocial foundation. It offers an API to develop application that are compatible across multiple platforms using HTML, JavaScript, XML, and REST. After one year of existence the standard has been implemented by more than 20 containers, is used by more than 600 million users and more than 7500 applications have been developed for it. The session will start with an overview of what is OpenSocial ant it’s ecosystem (social networks, developers, enterprise vendors). We will continue with a general summary of the differences between the Portlet 2.0 specification and the OpenSocial gadgets. Finally, We will demonstrate how to develop OpenSocial applications with the state of the art technology like flex, GWT, grails and eXo Social.

Which Portlet Bridge is made for you?
Speaker: Julien Viet, eXo Platform
Schedule: April 2, 02:00 - 02:30
Abstract: A Portlet Bridge is a technology to adapt a web framework to the Portlet environment. A Portlet is a user interface component executed in a runtime called Portlet Container in a similar fashion a Servlet is executed in a Servlet Container. Usually web frameworks are designed to execute in a Servlet Container, fortunately most of the widely known web frameworks provide a Portlet Bridge to provide integration within portals. Furthermore, the JavaServer Faces, standard web framework of the Java EE ecosystem, has its own bridge specification called “Portlet Bridge Specification for JavaServer Faces” that specifies the required behavior. The Portlet specification provides exclusive features not available in a servlet environment such as content personalization, access to the user profile. With the latest 2.0 release of the Portlet specification new advanced features are available such as eventing between portlet. Such features can be bridged between the Portlet and the web framework providing a native support by the framework programming model. This talk provides an high level introduction to the Portlet programming model. Then it focuses on reviewing the support of various Portlet Bridge. A few examples are detailed in order to illustrate the usage of Portlet advanced features with various web frameworks. The talk is targeted to web developers that wants to know which frameworks can be executed within a portal and the features they an expect for them. No particular prerequisite is required beside being familiar with web frameworks such as JavaServer Faces, Struts 2, Tapestry or Wicket.

Come to the event and meet the eXo guys, ask your access pass here!

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Rencontrez eXo Platform au salon Documation (stand C26) qui se tiendra ce mercredi 25 et jeudi 26 mars à Paris afin d’aborder des sujets liés aux problématiques de gestion de contenus. eXo Platform apporte aux entreprises des solutions fiables au travers d’une large gamme de produits dans des domaines variés: Outils Collaboratifs, Gestion des connaissances, Workflow et Gestion des Processus, Archivage et Records Management, Gestion du cycle de vie de l’information, Fournisseurs de contenu, Gestion des catalogues, Intranet Documentaire, G.E.D, Portails d’entreprise, et Web content management.

C’est avec plaisir et passion que nous répondrons à vos interrogations et problématiques.

Rejoignez nous, demandez votre badge !

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