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Note: Open source document management tools now joined by social collaboration features on Java portal.
Enterprise Social Networks: A Guided Tour (click image for larger view and for slideshow) Aerospace firm Sonaca began working with the open source Exo collaboration platform because it needed a customizable portal for document management, but now is among the first organizations to also adopt it for social collaboration.
Exo follows in the tradition of portals that use the Java-based portlet model for customizations and extensions, but now also will support the more lightweight social software style of adding components at the user interface level, with modules written in HTML and JavaScript. The base Exo platform also now incorporates the basic elements of social collaboration, such as profile pages and activity streams.
Portals and enterprise social networking products "at some point wind up going in the same direction, but both come from different directions," said Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO...