Claros, which is a passionate team in creating open source software, has a beautiful software named Claros inTouch.

Clasor InTouch is an ajax communication suite with key features such as webmail, address book, post-it notes, calendar (in progress), webdisk (in progress), built-in instant messenger and RSS reader. It is the first open source web application which features built in spam protection and instant messaging capabilities together with web 2.0 technologies.

It is built with Java, utilizes JSP/Servlets with the well known J2EE technologies & uses MySQL database.

Claros inTouch is more than a free webmail software with a slick interface & usability.

It is offered under GNU which makes this communication suite software totally free.

Liferay, with 60 tools and a selection of today’s most innovative technologies, enables you to do everything like:

• Creating websites.
• Building intranets.
• Simply getting the right documents and applications to the right people.

Liferay inlcudes web publishing, content management, collaboration and social networking.

With the role-based authorization, admins & users can define which information can be viewed by which users.

A strong set of community features help creating communities, user groups & they can have their own mini-portals.

Some other included features are: wikis, forums, instant messenger, calendar, webmail, blogs & more.

And, any other applications like accounting, sales can be integrated with its open architecture.

The application is “giant” with the features it offers & hard to describe its capabilities completely. Users interested in creating an enterprise portal should definitely check it.