Portals the Red Hat Way

As companies struggle to determine which portal vendor and solution is right for their organizations, decision-making teams tend to adopt one of the 2 most common strategies:

• the "build-it-yourself" approach
• the buy-a-full-suite approach

This paper will describe each of these portal strategies in more detail and will highlight the advantages and challenges that each one presents. It will also introduce the Red Hat portal solution, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, and demonstrate how it can deliver a portal solution that is right in terms of product functionality, flexibility, ease of ownership, and total cost of ownership (TCO).