Hi Brett,
In brief, Liferay portal uses Open Standards and the latest technologies which ease the pain of integration.
You can use one of the following options for
Servlet containers and full
Java EE application servers to run Liferay Portal:
• Geronimo +
Tomcat
• Glassfish 3
• Glassfish 2 for AIX
• Glassfish 2 for Linux
• Glassfish 2 for OSX
• Glassfish 2 for Solaris
• Glassfish 2 for Solaris (x86)
• Glassfish 2 for Windows
• JBoss + Tomcat 4.2
• JBoss + Tomcat 5.0
• Jetty
• JOnAS + Jetty
• JOnAS + Tomcat
• Resin
• Tomcat 5.5 and 6.0
• Borland ES 6.5
• JRun 4 Updater 3
• Oracle AS 10
• Orion 2.0
• Pramati 5.0
• RexIP 2.5
• SUN JSAS 9.1
• WebLogic 8.1 SP4, 9.2, 10
• WebSphere 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0
Databases that Liferay portal can run on include, but not limited:
• Apache Derby
• IBM DB2
• Firebird
• Hypersonic
• Informix
• InterBase
• JDataStore
• MySQL
• Oracle
• PostgresSQL
• SAP
• SQL Server
• Sybase
Operating systems that Liferay portal can run on include:
• LINUX (Debian, RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and so on)
• UNIX (AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, OS X, Solaris, and so on)
• WINDOWS
• MAC OS X
And successful stories:
http://www.liferay.com/
http://www.knovel.com/
http://www.sesamestreet.org/
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/
etc.
- Jonas Yuan