A Portal to a Portal

Yes, you heard it right - IBM has released a NEW and UPDATED beta for WebSphere Portal 6.1; namely 6.1.0.1, with the following features: -

• WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.0 (toleration level support as the underlying Application server)
• IBM DB2 9.5
• Oracle 11g R1 11.1.0.6
• Windows Active Directory 2008 (excludes Application mode),
• Firefox 3 browser
• Apple Safari 3 browser
• Opera 9.5 browser (on Vista OS)
• Windows IIS 7
• Apache HTTP Server 2.2 (for use with WAS 7 environments only)

The beta is available as a VMware image, which is rather nice :-)

There is also a new "drop" of the Rational Application Developer V7.5 beta as well.

Please see this page for details.

****UPDATED 5 OCTOBER 2008****

Having following the link for the RAD 7.5 beta here, it's now clear that RAD 7.5 was GA as of September 30, so I guess I'll have to go and download it from the normal PPA site

****UPDATED 5 OCTOBER 2008****