Liferay, Inc., is an open-source company focused on

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technology. The company has its headquarters in

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History

Liferay's original product, Liferay Portal, was created in 2000 by chief software architect Brian Chan to provide an

service for

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. In 2004, the company was incorporated under the name Liferay, Inc. and formalized its

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subsidiary Liferay GmbH. In 2007, the company opened a new

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n headquarters in

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, and the

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subsidiary Liferay SL. In March 2009, the company opened a new office in

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. To date Liferay has 22 offices worldwide with over 250 partners and 180,000 open source community members.

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and Liferay signed a technology-sharing agreement during May 2008. Sun Microsystems rebranded the offering

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Web Space Server. ZDNet further describes the relationship in the May 2008 article ''Sun and Liferay launch web-presentation platform''. In 2010 Sun was acquired by

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and the GlassFish Web Space Server was not included in their portal roadmap, with all prospects turned over to Liferay, Inc. In April 2013, Liferay partnered with

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to offer a series of Liferay enterprise Connectivity Adapters (eC Adapters) that use TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks with the intention of easing integration of Liferay Portal with multiple systems. In May 2016, the company introduced Liferay Digital Experience Platform, an expansion of the original Liferay Portal, to offer additional functionality such as engagement metrics. In July 2018, Liferay released two new products: a B2B focused

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service called Liferay Commerce, and a

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software called Liferay Analytics Cloud. In October 2018, Liferay DXP Cloud was released to help enterprise organizations move to the cloud. In December 2019, collaborative editing of documents was fully introduced in Liferay with the integration of

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editors via the integration app.

History

See also