Archive for May 2012
WebSphere Portal 8 General Availability – Friday May 4
Download the gold release of IBM WebSphere Portal 8 on Friday May 4th. This is the estimated general availability for media downloads.
This includes the latest version of IBM Web Content Management and IBM Web Experience Factory.
Here’s the announcement letter:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS212-132#h2-pubx
This latest version improves manageability of content, delivery of content to mobile platforms, and increases integration of features into the portal core.
Thanks t0 Stuart McIntyre’s Portal2Portal blog I caught up on an announcement I overlooked.
Tip: IBM Quickr for WebSphere Portal 8.5 – Migration Strategies
Fundamentally there are two advertised approaches for migrating from Quickr for WebSphere Portal 8.1.1.1 to 8.5. One approach is to leverage the Backup & Restore functionality of IBM Quickr and another is to embrace a complete migration following a detailed procedure that migrates all places on a server. There is a potential issue with the former scenario that should not be overlooked. That is this: Be sure that all places to be restored have been backed up AFTER upgrading the “source” server to 8.1.1.1 and that each backup references the current page and portlet deployment of the system. Customers who rely on backups that are months or more old may be gravely disappointed when attempting to restore such places on their new 8.5 platform.
Taking Notez - Island Pond Consulting 