The retail application is due to ship in the next quarter, with the pharmaceutical application slated for delivery in the fourth quarter. Both applications are built on industry-specific components of its composite applications development suite.
The launch of the retail application will be included as part of Plumtree’s G6 release, which will also make Plumtree’s portal, content management and application development platform available on Novell’s SuSE Linux operating system.
San Francisco-based Plumtree says the openness of its portal platform gives the company a leg-up against rival portal offerings from Microsoft and IBM since its software runs on .NET, Java and now Linux.
Plumtree has coined the term community applications which refers to a new class of portal application that pulls together information from multiple front- and back-end systems and delivers it to a community of end users in a process-specific workflow.
