Portals pay off; after all the hype from application server vendors in 2001, portals have finally landed firmly on solid, enterprise ground. (Portals).

Enterprise Systems Journal, June, 2002 by Patrizio, Andy

If you've been blowing portals off as all hype and vapor, you're forgiven, since that's largely what they were in 2001. All of the major application server vendors (including Sun, IBM and BEA Systems) talked up portals but didn't have a particularly strong offering to back up the talk.

How things have changed. Programmers have gone to work and product has begun to reach the market. In many cases, portal technology is second generation, offering more functionality than the first-generation products that were little more than a presentation layer. More important, if you're trying to make that elusive business case to top management, portals are offering a measurable ROI in both time and money almost from implementation.

That news seems to have reached...

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