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Provider of the leading enterprise open source portal, today announced that Sun Microsystems will formally be joining the Liferay open source community and will continue to contribute to the development of Liferay Portal.

Sun’s participation in Liferay’s community will result in enhanced development of enterprise Web 2.0 features and optimized performance for Liferay Portal in combination with Sun’s family of products.

Sun and Liferay plan to separately market and sell products and services based on their collaboration. Sun plans to use core elements of Liferay Portal 5.0 as the foundation for Sun’s next generation web development and collaboration platform.

In addition, Liferay will continue to offer the full suite of professional services and support for all platforms it already offers its customers.

“Sun’s participation in Liferay’s community is an indication of our community’s strength and the quality of the software we’ve produced,” said Bryan Cheung, Liferay’s CEO. “Our commitment to open standards means Liferay easily integrates with the Sun family of products. We are pleased that Sun has chosen to participate with us in building great software to serve our communities.”

“Collaborating and innovating with the Liferay community is an exciting project as we develop the right Web 2.0 tools and technologies for participants in the Network Economy,” said Karen Tegan Padir, Vice President of engineering, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems.

“It’s clear that open source is the right approach and the communities that create them are increasingly interconnected and play a role in next generation platforms.”

Yahoo India has recently appointed Ram Narayanan as VP, Product Management, Marketing Products Division (MPD). With Yahoo India, he would be responsible globally for building platforms and products aimed at enabling advertisers to have different customized advertising options.Working closely with Shouvick Mukherjee, a Yahoo veteran, who has recently been given the responsibility of VP, Engineering for the MPD, Ram will be based out of Bangalore and report locally to Sharad Sharma, CEO, Yahoo India Research %26 Development, and functionally to Mark Morrissey, SVP, Product Management, MPD, Yahoo. Prior to joining Yahoo, Ram worked with Microsoft in India as well as Redmond, WA from 2000.

He was the Business Manager and Technical advisor to Chairman, Microsoft India and the founder of the High Performance Computing Group. From 1992 to 2000, Ram was responsible for founding two companies called Innosol Inc. and Engineering Dynamics Inc. in Michigan delivering engineering software and services to the automotive industry.These appointments are in line with the new initiative at Yahoo India to create a CoE (Centre of Excellence) for Mass Market Advertisement (MMA) in Bangalore. Yahoo said that, both Ram and Shouvick will drive the creation of the next generation of Mass Market Advertiser products for Yahoo and create value for the MMA CoE. The MMA CoE will help drive self-serve solutions for advertisers and agencies and the main focus of the team will be to provide small advertisers with a simple advertising platform that drive greater value to their businesses, further added the company.