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Liferay as a Platform Brian Kim COO Liferay, Inc. Thursday, October 1, 2009
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Liferay as a PlatformBrian KimCOOLiferay, Inc.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Major organizations around the world choose Liferay Portal for a wide variety of business use cases beyond the traditional portal:
Liferay Use Cases
Web Publishing & Content ManagementIntranet / ExtranetCollaborationSocial NetworkEAI Framework
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“A ‘platform’ is a system that can be programmed and therefore customized by outside developers — users — and in that way, adapted to countless needs and niches that the platform’s original developers could not have possibly contemplated, much less had time to accommodate.”1
Platform
What is a platform exactly?
1Marc Andreessen http://blog.pmarca.com/
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FrameworkMethod of deliveryMedium for deliveryOpen SDKCommunity
Recipe
Ingredients
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Recipe
Liferay as a platform
Portal
Easy to use + Easy to install
Internet
Plugin Installer
Plugins SDK
Method of delivery
Open SDK
Community
Framework
Open source software is a natural fit
22,000+ registered users
250,000+ deployments worldwide
From 60,000 forum posts in December 2008 to now over 100,000 forum posts
Medium for deliveryWARs
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Community
vs
Atari - Lynx Nintendo - Gameboy
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FrameworkMethod of deliveryMedium for deliveryOpen SDKCommunity
Recipe
Ingredients
And finally...
A Marketplace
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Application ecosystemOption to “buy” vs. “build”
Provides a distribution channelCentralized repository
“All roads lead to Rome.”
Marketplace
Benefits of a Marketplace
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HardwareMobile Devices
iPhoneBlackberryPalm
Game ConsolesPlayStation 3Xbox 360
eBook ReadersKindle
Marketplace
Movement towards the Marketplace
SoftwareSocial Networking
FacebookMySpace
Software-as-a-ServiceSalesForce.com
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A larger pool of plugins via increased adoptionImproved toolkits
Alloy UIImproved APIsLiferay as the defacto Web Platform
Marketplace
The Liferay community would benefit from:
Higher demandHigher value
The Liferay developer would benefit from:
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ProprietaryAbility to quickly and easily expose plugins to a large audienceCompensation
Ability to sell plugins separatelyUse of plugins to upsell third party products
Open sourceCollaboration
Marketplace
What incentives does the community have to get involved?
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Need infrastructure to support the ecosystemHostingQA
Monetization Isolation
Need to protect the portal from malicious or unruly codeToolkits for easier developmentSeparation between staging and production
Marketplace
Challenges
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Developers offering development servicesCompanies whose business model is around building plugins
Emergence of third party services
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Alternative Recipe
Application Scripts
Scripting languages (ruby, groovy, python and javascript, php)
Easy to deploy
Application BuilderOpen SDK
Framework
Medium for deliveryScripts
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Liferay is already being used as a platformWith all the people in this room, how many plugins were built total?
Why are we building the same plugins over and over again?ReuseRepurpose
In conclusion
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For more information, please contact:
Brian KimChief Operating OfficerLiferay, [email protected]
Thank you.
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