As mentioned by Navneeth in his post, Sun Portal has been open sourced. The news came in after Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz promised to make Java open-source code at JavaOne. Check out the press release Sun Advances Open Source Strategy at JavaOne.
Sun has launched Portal Open Source Project under which it will be releasing all components and technologies in Sun Java System Portal Server 7. The beginning is done by creating an open source portlet repository which list down portlets like RSS, Bookmark, notepad, showtime.
Sun Portal which was made free some time back has finally entered in open source arena. Its been really a brave move by Sun. To my knowledge, Sun Portal has not been doing so well compared to other commercial products. This move will definitely make changes in the market share equations. Some time back in my post titled “Software Buying Shift towards Open Source“, I tried to highlight +ve’s and -ve’s of an open source product. And Sun Portal will surely score outstanding in the -ve areas, which will give the product edge over other open source players. Liferay, eXo, JBoss time to watch Sun driving open source Portals market.