Luminis 5 ?
Has anyone heard anything about Luminis 5 recently? Based on Summit this year, I thought SGHE was targeting this fall for beta-testing with a release in the first half of 2010. I don't see anything on the support center so far. I'm just curious.
What I heard at 3CBG
That's the California Community College Banner Group conference. Here's some things from my notes:
From Sungard, Ward Maddux described some of what we can expect with Sungard, and Luminis 5.
Community Commons for the source code/enhancement sharing will run on Luminis 5. Sungard's Community Source initiative will have a testing platform hosted by Sungard, good for testing your code under load, for example. Will use Mercury for testing.
Luminis 5 beta due 2010Q1, general release in Q2.
Every major feature in 4 will be in 5, though not necessarily with all the same specific features. Group studio to be very different.
Liferay will be "reference platform." Luminis will also be tested in uPortal and something TBD (maybe Oracle portal). LP4 and earlier "80% tied to portal, 20% open"; LP5 will be "80% open, 20% tied to portal" (mostly for integration with user administration, etc). Liferay is very customizable, both for admin and for users. Drag 'n drop channels, flexible layouts (columns, rows, stackable, etc).
Sungard Product mgmt promises ability to lock certain page features (e.g. keep certain portlets from being removed), but sounds to be not ready yet. Administration and configuration is supposed to be more delegable and easier (e.g. don't need to log in as layout owner to change a layout for all users). Interportlet communication (clicking link in one changes content in another), communities an example (as the replacement for group studio).
Product mgmt has committed to providing some kind of migration tool/ability from 4 to 5.
For authentication, portal will support CAS, EAS (to log into portal). For SSO, open technologies like CAS, Shibboleth are the future; he didn't know what will happen with GCF?
Luminis Message Broker technology likely to remain, at least for near future, since it's robust and works.