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.