BEA vs. Oracle Portal

Were a BEA shop using BEA application server 8.x and currently evaluating Portal solutions, for the most part we have settled on BEA but Corporate has asked us to consider Oracle. I already have some competitive info from our BEA sales guy but I was hoping to get some insight from some of you that have had the pleasure of working with both tool sets. Any feedback would be appreciated.
R.

WebLogic Portal 10.3.6 is the last version of WLP, you can upgrade your application from 9.2 to 10.3.6 with tools provided by Oracle.
Oracle Portal 11g is a complete different product.

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Oracle Portal returns 500 error running under Weblogic 11g server

I've got Oracle Portal set up under Weblogic 11g.
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After the install (no errors or issue on install), I go to http://<server>:8090/portal/pls/portal and geta Error 500 - Internal Server Error.
I traced down the problem to OHS - in ohs1.log:
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Yes, it seems you are correct....this is from WLS_PORTAL-diagnostic.log
Looks like the real problem is ERROR: Failed to load C shared library in RepositoryGateway after calling RepositoryGatewayJNI.load:
[2009-08-05T08:32:08.333-05:00] [WLS_PORTAL] [NOTIFICATION] [] [oracle.portal] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '5' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: <anonymous>] [ecid: 0000IBekbL6Fw000jzwkno1AU3uT000001,0] [APP: portal] Portal Servlet Context Listener destroy started
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**ERROR STARTS HERE
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I would be interested what Sun Portal people thing about the Sun Product and the Oracle Portal if they have some knowledge....
We are evaluating right now both products.
What would be the advantage of the Sun Portal ? Oracle Portal has a nice content management interface. Sun does not have something like that but maybe sun has other advantages we dont know.
I am looking forward to your replys.
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not from Sun but ..
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* CMS is from Fatwire
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+ open system
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+ + + +

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Hi ,
I am new to Oracle and portal and i am learning the stuff on my local computer.
1. I downloaded the the oracle package from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/wlp/index.html
2. Then I created a very small application with portal Ear and portal web with Eclipse plugin
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5. I manually hadded library references in weblogic-application xml file
6. Then now I tried to start the server, I get the below error..
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No help with Google..Thanks for your help
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<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8' standalone = 'yes'?>
<weblogic-application xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-application" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-application http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-application/1.0/weblogic-application.xsd">
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<listener-class>oracle.adf.share.weblogic.listeners.ADFApplicationLifecycleListener</listener-class>
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<listener>
<listener-class>oracle.mds.lcm.weblogic.WLLifecycleListener</listener-class>
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<library-ref>
<library-name>adf.oracle.domain</library-name>
<implementation-version>11.1.1.1.0</implementation-version>
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<library-ref>
<library-name>
oracle.webcenter.skin
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<specification-version>
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</specification-version>
</library-ref>
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Pedro Ribeiro

Hi Pedro
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<library>
<name>[email protected]</name>
<target>AdminServer</target>
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Unresolved application library references, defined in weblogic-application.xml: Extension-Name: oracle.webcenter.skin, Specification-Version: 11.1.1, exact-match: false
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I need help to clarified it. As i am going to use portal I want to use the one that oracle intend to support

Hi Harish,
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http://blogs.oracle.com/webcenter/ .
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We are using Webcenter Framework for a client who is already onto Oracle Portal.
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Easy Integration and building of Wiki, Blogs, Chat, Forum
Very Easy to build, fast development
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