Several commercial partners provide a variety of services to the uPortal community... including training, implementation, customization and support.
uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions of higher-education. This group sees an institutional portal as an abridged and customized version of the institutional Web presence... a "pocket-sized" version of the campus Web. Portal technology adds "customization" and "community" to the campus Web presence. Customization allows each user to define a unique and personal view of the campus Web. Community tools, such as chat, forums, survey, and so on, build relationships among campus constituencies.
uPortal is an open-standard effort using Java, XML, JSP and J2EE. It is a collaborative development project with the effort shared among several of the JA-SIG member institutions. You may download uPortal and use it on your site at no cost.
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JA-SIG Releases uPortal 3.0.1-GA for Production Use
The JA-SIG uPortal Project Steering Committee is extremely pleased to announce the release of uPortal 3.0.1. This is the first patch release of the uPortal 3 framework fixing 34 bugs, making 14 improvements and resolving 5 other issues. This work is a direct result of over 17 organizations actively working to adopt or upgrade to uPortal 3.0. -
Unicon's Cooperative Support Program Contributes Over 40 uPortal
Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals,<http://www.unicon.net/opensource>applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced the Unicon Cooperative Support Program for uPortal has developed and contributed over 40 new uPortal enhancements to the open source JASIG community from July 2007 through May 2008. -
Unicon Announces uPortal 3 Commercial Support
Phoenix, AZ - May 5, 2008 - Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced commercial support for uPortal 3, the next generation community source portal platform designed by and for the higher education community. -
Johns Hopkins University Selects Unicon to Develop uPortal Mobile for Campus & Students
Phoenix, AZ - April 21, 2008 - Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced it has been chosen by Johns Hopkins University to develop and deploy its new mobility theme based on uPortal, the open source enterprise portal for higher ed. The mobility theme is designed to enhance the functionality and content of its campus portal to make it accessible by mobile devices such as cell phones, SmartPhones, and PDAs and more useful to students, faculty, and administrators. The mobility development work and testing is scheduled to be completed and go live in the summer of 2008. Johns Hopkins University plans to donate the mobile development work back to the uPortal open source community. -
JA-SIG Releases uPortal 3.0.0-GA for Production Use
The JA-SIG uPortal Project Steering Committee is extremely pleased to announce the release of uPortal 3.0, the next generation community source portal platform designed by and for the higher education community. The new release marks a major, evolutionary step forward for the award-winning project. Version 3.0 has brought the rock solid, high performing uPortal 2.x product to a new level, incorporating current best practices in enterprise Java. The entire uPortal community can unite on one branch moving forward, and it is now possible for everyone to migrate to the latest version of uPortal when appropriate for their institution. uPortal 3.0 builds upon the flexibility and reliability of uPortal 2.x while providing an attractive look and feel using improved JavaScript libraries, even more robust portlet support, a modern build environment, use of leading Java frameworks (Spring), and other enhancements, bringing the larger deployments and performance already achieved in uPortal 2 in easier reach of more uPortal adopters. -
170 Participants Attend Fifth ESUP-Portail Conference in Paris
One hundred and seventy participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (Feb. 5, 2008) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium.
