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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.”

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community for building software, announced to develop and promote open source runtime technology based on Equinox, a lightweight OSGi compliant runtime.

The new initiative has been started to promote Equinox as a platform for building and deploying general-purpose software products and applications. To support Equinox community, the Eclipse Foundation has also announced the following: The Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors has approved and created a new top-level project called the Eclipse Runtime project (Eclipse RT) A new Equinox community portal has been launched on the Eclipse web site.

The portal is focused on promoting and educating developers on Equinox, OSGi and related Eclipse runtime projects.Equinox has introduced a concept called Component Oriented Development and Assembly (CODA) to build and deploy software. Developers using Equinox have flexibility in assembling and customizing their application and runtime platform. It also provides a standard integration mechanism, thereby allowing organizations to integrate applications with their partner and customers solutions.