WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management Beta Three Now Available

Hmmm, managed to miss this announcement during the Lotusphere 2010 excitement this week. Thanks to a serendipitous Google search for something completely unrelated ( WebSphere Portlet Factory and Rational Team Concert together ), thanks to Strongback for posting this: -

Beta 3 of WebSphere Portal 7 Now Available

http://blog.strongbackconsulting.com/2010/01/beta-3-of-websphere-portal-7-now.html

which references: -

WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management Beta Three Now Available    

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=315917

which further references: -

IBM WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management Open Beta

https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/lotus/portalopenbeta/

WebSphere Portal Beta Readme

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/Portal.Next_Beta_Readme.htm

I'm not actually sure whether this will be Version 7 or, perhaps, Version 6.X, but it's not as important as the fact that the code is out there NOW. They promise to have VMware images of Beta 3 by the end of the month, and there's also Hypervisor and Amazon EC2 options available as well. One's cup overfloweth :-)

Nice one, Kenny