Comments on: Open Source Enterprise Portal: Liferay

By: arun

arun — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:18:45 +0000

whether liferay available in silverlight?If so where i can get it?

By: And

And — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:29:21 +0000

We are using Liferay in few our websites:

1. Communities – great solution – many different sites using one Liferay instance. So it’s not that heavy as one says.
2. It’s still buggy. I’m waiting for 5.3 hoping for some fixes.
3. Portlet approach is good because it’s very flexible and bad because development meets many limitations.
4. Staging (development version of your website) is very convenient and it’s easy for user’s with no technical background and want only to update site.
5. There is almost no documentation. You can buy it of course, with support €10,000 only .

It’s a nice portal but still unstable. If bundled portlets are suitable for you and Java is familiar to you I say go for it.

By: Fongchowpei

Fongchowpei — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:58:48 +0000

http://www.liferay.com/web/ronald.sarayudej/blog

has a good list of sites using Liferay

By: William Berks

William Berks — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:51:16 +0000

We built the IEEE Computer Society portal using Liferay.

http://www.computer.org

By: Hisham

Hisham — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:09:53 +0000

I am new to LifeRay my self, and we are testing it for a big portal projects, we didn’t decide wether to use it or find another application.

I would like ask anyone using LifeRay to show us some examples, or add a link to his portal so other can check it.

you can contact me through the link on my name above, it’s for my personal blog where you can contact me, thanks!

By: alavudin

alavudin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:12:41 +0000

Im working on liferay only.. mine is not a big corporation.

its cool only. coding also any one can understan who

knows java. it reducing lot of work to develop intranet.

By: Aaron G

Aaron G — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:31:15 +0000

It does say in the title “Enterprise Portal”

It’d be great if there were a video.

By: Nick Kerschgens

Nick Kerschgens — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:58:23 +0000

I am very interested in this application, but i cannot load the demo. The systeem keeps initializing.
So if i read the comment of Ruben Alves, i think that this application is really heavy and maybe only suitable for the largest corporations.

Someone else have some experience with liferay?

By: Ruben Alves

Ruben Alves — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:41:18 +0000

I sorry to disagree with you, but Liferay is far away a CMS I’ll try to sell to someone.
First of all, is Java! Very, but very heavy, it load any kind of servers in a brutal way.
Second, implementation: not easy to code/understand (maybe I’m dumb… But I’ve been programming in PHP for 6 years, and I never seen a so strange way to code a webpage)
Third: Documentation! SO BAD, so poor! The current version is 5.1.2, and the only documentation available is from a old 2006/2007 4.x.x version… No Liferay is definitively a true nightmare for coders and sysadmins.
More… You can DoS any liferay website with a simple AB!
Resuming: forget liferay for a simple website with special needs. Liferay is good for big corporation working in a cluster of servers only for intranet use…

By: insic

insic — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:27:07 +0000

this is a cool application.