Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition 5.2 Released

Business Wire, June 17, 2009

Open Source Leader Drives Business Results for Enterprise Customers

LOS ANGELES -- Liferay, Inc., recently announced the availability of the next major release of Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE), the commercial subscription to its award-winning open source portal software. Enterprise customers are using Liferay Portal EE to build flexible, cost-effective business solutions, leveraging open source innovation with the reliability of a long-term subscription model.

In addition to new product features such as Microsoft Office® integration, centralized multi-site administration and web content management enhancements, Liferay Portal EE 5.2 provides access to business-critical services that include:

• Four years of maintenance updates and a formal five-year End of Service Life Policy
• Customer Portal with access to software, updates, and whitepapers
• Enterprise scalability proven to support deployments of over 1.3 million users
• Benchmarked performance improvements of up to 10x
• Optional software and legal indemnification

Since Liferay’s introduction of Enterprise Edition in January 2009, over 70% of Liferay’s support customers have subscribed to the Enterprise Edition, enjoying savings of over 90% against proprietary solutions.

Leveraging the product’s diverse set of integrated capabilities, including portals, web publishing, document management, collaboration, social networking, and mashup services, Liferay customers have built critical business applications including:

• Global collaboration platforms yielding new revenue streams and savings of $8 million annually
• Self-service portals for insurance providers to reduce customer support costs
• Social networks that drive revenue through relational marketing and social recommendations
• University student portals that provide a single interface for student-university interactions

“Enterprises are actively investing in portals in significant numbers in 2009 as the software has evolved to encompass adjacent technologies,” said Bryan Cheung, Liferay’s CEO. “Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition provides customers with the best combination of open source technology and commercial support under a sustainable subscription model.”

Liferay’s enterprise success reflects equal traction in a vibrant open source community, where its ten-year open source history, leading feature set, and liberal MIT license have yielded over 2.4 million downloads and an estimated 200,000 community deployments.

The company will host a free webinar of the product on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 to showcase new features and answer questions. For more information, please visit www.liferay.com/ee.

Liferay Inc.

Liferay, Inc. is the provider of Liferay Portal, the world’s leading open source enterprise portal used by enterprises worldwide, including Allianz, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, Sun Microsystems, and the United Nations. Liferay, Inc. offers support, development and training services to ensure successful deployment for its customers. For more information, please visit www.liferay.com.

Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.