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The Enterprise Portals Report 2008 looks at... Oracle Portal 10g

"By default, the portal comes with a simple Web search engine called UltraSearch. It's not pretty out of the box and you'll probably want to spend time updating the user interface. UltraSearch can also only search and index public content. In other words, secure content will not be indexed at all. "

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Oracle Portal woes

21-Jul-2007

It can be challenging to work with any big software vendor, but Oracle in particular does not seem to be making portal projects easy for its faithful customers. I've previously pointed out the new emphasis on Oracle WebCenter Suite in lieu of Oracle Portal, which will have a significant impact on the large existing customer base.

Recent commentaries from the blogosphere also support our findings in the Enterprise Portals Report about complicated appserver upgrades and spotty documentation.

In my many interviews with Oracle Portal customers, a repeating theme is the difficulty in finding knowledgeable portal resources, even inside Oracle. The lack of dedicated portal coverage among Oracle's many technical blogs would seem to confirm this.

Common risk factors apply to all portal projects, but at the moment Oracle seems to be making things are bit more complicated.

- Submitted by: Janus Boye, Contributing Analyst

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