Are portal servers just a marketing tool or are they actually useful?

Can anybody explain the typical featureset of a portal server?

On my last project I had to use Websphere Commerce Suite by IBM and if
you've not seen that think of 250+ fine grained entity beans all deployed
in one jar.

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Måns af Klercker wrote:

> Hi Joel!
>
> The founder of WebWork, XDoclet and some other cool OSS, Rickard =D6berg,
> works at a company selling a product based on the mentioned Portlet API. It
> also uses WebWork a lot, from what I gather. He is active on this list, so
> getting in touch with him and his company could possibly be worthwhile to
> you!
>
> He posted some links here a few weeks ago with some links to portal sites
> they had implemented. Search the archives...
>
> cheers,
> /M=E5ns
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>   Sent: den 18 december 2002 10:37
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>   Subject: [OS-webwork] Websphere portal server to Webwork, help please !
>
>
>   Hi
>
>   My company has a client (one of the big 3 'Reiseportal' application in
> Germany) which has bought Websphere and IBM portal server one year ago. The
> development cycle is very very bad, and now, we have to make some proposal
> to use another portal framework. I already think about Webwork.
>
>   Then the question...
>
>   - IBM portal server is a mix of Apache Jetspeed and Turbine. And use some
> "Portlet API". Is the also some API like this in WW ? That's were wonderfull
> to plug the portlet we have.
>
>   - because this IBM portal do NOT come with session management (how we can
> sell such a bad product ??), we program this. How portlet just as for some
> XML, use some stylesheets and render, that all, i.e we use 5% of this IBM
> framework.
>
>   has someone experience of how to switch quickly ?
>
>   Thanks
>
>   Joel
>
>
>
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