Article 1: My take on the current Portal Industry and various Job roles

In this article I will try to briefly sum up my experiences, so far, with the Portal and some of the confusions surrounding it.
Its a bigger topic and I might use some other posts to cover this. But here is a gentle introduction.

Around 5-6 years back when I started on my first Portal project the market was picking up and was a buzz with Portal solutions such as Liferay.
It was understandable because Portals allowed a company to make better websites and at the same time display aggregated content.
I don't see much difference even today except that the Portal market is growing and getting better each passing day. The only problem is
lack of support and good resources to meet the current market needs. So while Liferay has become stronger in all these years, thanks to
a ton of features and being open source, its not quite easy to find good resources who can help customize it for specific needs.