eXo PlatformMerges Portal Software Development into JBoss Community

eXo Joins JBoss Community to Collaborate on Robust, Easy-to-Use Portal Project
ORLANDO, Fla.--(Business Wire)--
eXo Platform SAS, one of Europe`s leading open source companies, today announced
the merger of its eXo Portal project with Red Hat`s JBoss Community Portal to
create a comprehensive, standards-compliant, open source portal platform that
will serve as the underlying technology for eXo`s portfolio of content,
collaboration, and social networking enterprise solutions.

The goal of the new project is to forge a strong portal solution by bringing
together the technical strengths of the two projects through the open source
community. To further bolster this new effort, eXo Platform has contributed a
new project to the JBoss Community, eXo JCR, which is a robust, cluster-ready
Java Content Repository that is standards based and a key component for the
project.

"Open source software has delivered substantial returns on investment for
organizations and we have the opportunity to deliver that same value within the
portals space," said Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO of eXo Platform. "What has always
been a challenge for any portal community or vendor is providing the right
balance of robust infrastructure and engaging usability features. This
collaborative project will strive to strike that balance and will work to create
an enterprise-grade, open source alternative to expensive, bloated closed source
portals."

eXo Portal is the foundational technology for all of eXo`s products. In
development for over six years, eXo Portal is known for its intuitive
administrative capabilities, advanced user interface features, and a robust
community presence. The JBoss Community Portal project will be the overall
portal engine for the new project and is a standards-based portal framework
known for its lightweight installation, performance, security, and scalability.
It has been downloaded by tens of thousands of users over the last four years,
and leverages JBoss Community technologies such as JBoss Application Server and
Hibernate.

"The eXo portal has some impressive functionality in terms of ease of use, UI
flexibility and straightforward management administration; JBoss.org's current
portal project has a robust engine, performance and security features, combined
this collaboration project will help drive portal capabilities forward," said
Dr. Mark Little, Sr. Director of Engineering, Middleware at Red Hat. "We are
pleased that eXo is joining the JBoss Community to collaborate on this newly
formed project."

Under the terms of the partnership, eXo Platform will migrate the code base for
its portal project to JBoss.org, where it will be integrated with the JBoss
Portal code base. The new JBoss eXo portal project will be licensed under the
Gnu Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Visit the new projects at
http://jboss.org.

About eXo Platform SAS

eXo Platform is a provider of integrated, standards-based open source portal,
content management, and collaboration software that hundreds of customers use to
share, access, and publish information across their organization. These
customers include Generali, Belgium`s Ministry of Finance, and the U.S.
Department of Defense. Founded in 2003, eXo Platform SAS is headquartered in
Paris with offices in Ukraine, Vietnam, and Tunisia. Visit
http://exoplatform.com.

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