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	August 26, 2005 BEA Buys Plumtree: Portal + Portal = 2 Portals? by Matthew Brown with Mike Gilpin, Connie Moore, John R. Rymer, Kyle McNabb, Lucy Fossner

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Executive Summary

The portal market vanished as quickly as it appeared by morphing into application server platforms, interaction platforms, and information workplaces. In the past four years, independents have been gobbled up by Sun Microsystems (iPlanet), SAP (TopTier), and Vignette (Epicentric). And now BEA Systems is buying Plumtree Software, the last of the portal pure-plays. By adding Plumtree to its AquaLogic product line and rationalizing its two portal products, BEA adds a face to the AquaLogic product portfolio — but one that is only a partial solution. To retain Plumtree's customers and grow its base, BEA needs to provide a compelling solution for the information worker, a new customer for BEA. For Forrester, this means thinking bigger than portal — a lot bigger. The upshot? BEA customers win, but Plumtree customers may look more to Microsoft or IBM for information worker support in the future.

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