LifeRay – Social Networking & CMS Web Publishing

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LifeRay is one of the leading open source CMS software platforms available for social networking, portal development, business intranets, corporate extranets, forums, archives, and general web publishing. LifeRay has already been downloaded over 1 million times, with an average of over 60,000 downloads per month. The software comes with numerous bundled versions and has already won accolades such as the InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Award for Best Open Source Portal.
The LifeRay Portal is composed of two main sections: the LifeRay Journal and the LifeRay Collaboration Suite. The LifeRay Journal is the content management system of the portal, allowing web publishers to easily post content, manage pages, create hierarchical menus, and site structure. The LifeRay Collaboration Suite is the social networking aspect of the portal, which includes forums, wiki collaboration, blogs, email, calendars, and tagging. Both of these can be extended by open source “portlets” that add increased functionality to the system.

The LifeRay Journal:
LifeRay Journal is LifeRay Portal’s built-in content management system (CMS) ready to deliver portal-based web publishing and document management.
Web Publishing
Document Library & Image Gallery
Java Content Repository
Image Gallery
Portal Publishing
Searchable Pages
Tagging
Easy Article Creation
The LifeRay Collaboration Suite:
Forums:
Message Boards
Sticky Posts
Statistics
Recent Posts
RSS
Email-based Subscriptions
Avatars
Threads Management
Permissions
Blogs:
User Blogs
RSS Support
Threaded User List
Guest Comments
Email Notifications of Blog Replies
Tags and Labels
Entry Rating System
Social Bookmarking Links
Blog Aggregator
Wikis:
Built-in User Management
LDAP Integration & Permissions
Multiple Wikis per Installation
Versioning and Reversion Capabilities
Other Features:
Mail
Microformats Support
Shared Calendaring
Enterprise Instant
RSS
Tagging
Portlets:
Administration
Content Management
Collaboration
Community
Entertainment
Personal Tools
Shopping Tools
Developer Tools
There are many benefits to the LifeRay Portal software, first and foremost of which are its open source code base and large community of international users. LifeRay provides an intuitive and collaborative user experience and allows publishers to consolidate, organize and access all their data and applications via a single point of access. It is also a cost effective way to optimize your development costs and adapt to the demands of a changing market.
The LifeRay CMS has one of the most impressive client lists of any open source portal software. From IT, Financial Services, and Retail Companies, to Non-Profits, Educational Groups, and Governmental Agencies, LifeRay CMS has hundreds of thousands of web sites deployed with its architecture. The professionalism, scalability, and affordability of LifeRay make it a wise choice for any web development department.
Online Demo:
An online demo of LifeRay is available at:
http://demo.liferay.net/web/guest/home
Download Page:
http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/portal
Additional Files:
http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/additional
Official Plugins:

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/official_plugins
Community Plugins:
http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/community_plugins
Technical Specs:

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/tech_specs