Alfresco VS Liferay : they do the same, functionaly speaking

[zomurn]

Knowing both, I can conclude Alfresco AND Liferay do :

- Document management
- CMS with liferay / WCM with alfresco
- Portlet in liferay / Dashlet with alfresco

where Portlet better then dashlet because portlet are JEE standard JSR-286, applications can interroperate through portlets, not through dashlets (proprietary)

Technically speaking :

- RESTFul both (in liferay with URL friendly framework).
- YUI+Javascript+Webscript+Freemarker for front layer with alfresco
- AUI (derived from YUI) + Javascript + Velocity + JSP/JSTL for front layer with liferay
- Spring + hibernate + lucene both

What are the differences functionaly speaking ?

In front of a customer, how to argue Liferay VS Alfresco … both allow the same functionalities.

[mikeh]

I don't know Liferay well enough to fully comment, but Alfresco's ECM is much more scaleable as well as supporting richer workflow and permissions.

We work well with Liferay together though – why not use the Alfresco Share portlet(s) within Liferay and get the best of both worlds?  :wink:


Mike