See also Portals | Commercial Portals | Cookie-Cutter Portals (Low Budget) | Mobile Portals
This is a summary of several large portals I developed and the pros and cons of various approaches. Most were done with opensource tools. Some were using someone else's software and modifying it for the customer.
See Portals for an introduction to this page.
| No | Market | Status | Sample | Application Software | Platform Technology | Application Licensing | Platform Licensing | Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commercial Portals | Dead | Dating Service | DateMill | PHP, MySQL, Linux, x86 | Commercial | Open Source | 90% support, 10% design |
| 2 | Cookie-Cutter Portals | Moved | Community Group | DotNetNuke | .NET Framework, SQL Server, Microsoft, x86 | Open Source | Commercial | 80% support, 20% design |
| 3 | Commercial Portals | Expired | Unnamed Business | original custom | PHP, MySQL, Linux, x86 | Commercial | Open Source | 5% support, 80% programming, 15% design |
| 4 | Commercial Portals | Moved | Unnamed Company | clone custom | PHP, MySQL, Mac OS X, G5 PowerMac, Airport | Commercial | Commercial | 90% support, 5% programming, 5% design |
| 5 | Commercial Portals | Revived | Unnamed Company | generated | PHP, Postgresql, Linux, x86, CodeCharge, LAN, Remote Desktop | Commercial | Commercial | 90% support, 5% programming, 5% design |
| 6 | Commercial Portals | Moved | Unnamed Company | Custom import of 1 million records in ASCII format merged with SOAP feed | PHP, MySQL, awk, C, Python, Linux, x86, ssh, SOAP | Commercial | Open Source | 15% support, 80% programming, 5% design |
| 7 | Commercial Portals | Unfinished | Unnamed Company | Translations contact and project database on intranet | PHP, MySQL, Linux, x86, Javascript | Commercial, Open Source | Open Source | 10% support, 80% programming, 10% design |
| 8 | Commercial Portals | Live | Professional Society | WordPress | PHP, MySQL, Linux, x86, Javascript | Open Source | Open Source | 90% support, 10% design |
| 9 | Commercial Portals | Live | Publisher | Joomla! | PHP, MySQL, Linux, x86, Javascript, VPS, cloud | Open Source | Open Source | 70% support, 30% design |
| 10 | Commercial Portals | Live | Healthcare Company | Products and services | PHP, Perl, Linux, x86, Javascript, PayPal | Commercial, Open Source | Open Source | 30% support, 20% programming, 50% design |
| 11 | Commercial Portals | Live | Self-Publishing | Mediawiki plus EPUB plugins | PHP, MySQL, Linux, x86, Javascript | Commercial, Open Source | Open Source | 50% support, 10% programming, 40% design |
NB: Any sites without a link have been redeveloped by another developer or gone bust.
Created: 22 Dec 2010 19:15
Last Updated: 4 July 2020 11:40