Advice appreciated: mojoPortal or Rainbowportal?

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3/21/2007 7:26:52 PM
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Advice appreciated: mojoPortal or Rainbowportal?

Some advice needed.

Hello,

I want to set up a intranet portal within my cmopany and am wondering, if mojoportal or rainbowportal will do the trick for me. Here are my requirements:
- I want to use web parts on the all web pages (so I can move over to share point if this becomes my companies police
- I want to be able to use my own custom membership/role provider so I can use our internal web service to authenticate users
- I want to be able to customize the theme to the style guidelines of my company
- I want multi-client capability, so that I have multiple sets of users that multiple groups of users share the same portal without knowing from each other (that means that any data must only be accessible for the certain groups (e.g. message board, etc)

I understand that this might not be out-of the box functionality and I will have to work on the sources myself. What I'd love to hear from you is a short statement if my wishes can be accomplished in either portal system and if so, how much work would be involved on my part.
Thank you
Chris
3/22/2007 3:46:46 PM
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Re: Advice appreciated: mojoPortal or Rainbowportal?

Hi,

mojoPortal can expose all it content instances as asp.net web parts in the web part catalog and we have the MyPage feature which allows users to create virtual pages and populate them from avilable web parts.

However the main pages of the site (ie the pages in the menu) which form the content management system do not use web parts per se.
Also currently there is no grouping of web part availability by role though site sections can be visible/editable by role

asp.net web parts are not the same thing as sharepoint web parts though my understanding is that future versions of sharepoint will support asp.net web parts

I really can't speak for Rainbow portal, I was involved with the project several years ago but started this project because of shortcomings I perceived in Rainbow.

I don't think rainbow supports web parts but I'm not positive.

mojoportal skins can be customized easily if you have css skills

mojoPortal has a custom membership provider that can work with MS SQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, I'm not sure how much work would be involved in making it use a custom web service.
mojoPortal can also autheticate using windows authentication or Active Directory or OpenLDAP

You can also host multiple sites using a single web installation and a single db as long as the sites each have s different host name.

Hope it helps,

Joe
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