As a trusted advisor to many major enterprises who are using or considering open source portals and enterprise/web content management, we see first hand how real the trend is toward open source and away from proprietary software. However, many of our clients are unwilling to discuss publicly their growing adoption of open source (for the most part, they don’t want their competitors to know).

So it’s always great to see public recognition of leading enterprise open source platforms, especially when it comes from the likes of Gartner.

As Liferay’s CEO Brian Cheung points out, Gartner has recognized Liferay in two of its Magic Quadrants, Horizontal Portals and Social Software.

Well deserved.

Rivet Logic Selected as Alfresco Surf First Wave Partner

We’re proud to be selected by Alfresco as a Surf First Wave Partner. Our engineers have been looking under the hood of a pre-release version of Surf for the last few months, and are quite excited about what it brings to the table for developing certain types of dynamic websites and content-centric web applications. Russ posted his initial thoughts on Surf here.

To learn more, we’ll be hosting and leading an Alfresco Surf Code next month. Register here.

We just helped launch a cool new Facebook application, Connected Weddings. Check it out at apps.facebook.com/connectedweds

A few months ago we first announced the start of this project, which was partially funded by a grant to our client (New Gravity Ventures) from the Facebook Fund.

Leveraging open source software from the likes of Alfresco, JBoss, and Ingres, Connected Weddings offers engaged couples on Facebook:

- Free Personal Wedding Website
- Seating chart that uses your Facebook Friend List!
- To-do list with over 150 of predefined tasks
- Gowns, tips, articles and much more

In addition to the Facebook version, there’s also an iPhone edition as well.

Learn more from our recently published Case Study: ConnectedWeddings: A first-of-its-kind
Alfresco-based application for Facebook