Unicon’s Education IT Consulting Group Collaborates with Johns Hopkins University Staff for uPortal 3 Upgrade

Phoenix, AZ - October 15, 2008 —Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced the completion of a collaborative project with the IT staff at Johns Hopkins University for their upgrade to the latest uPortal 3 open source enterprise portal.  As part of the upgrade process, Johns Hopkins University also contracted with Unicon to develop numerous uPortal 3 feature enhancements.   Johns Hopkins went live with the uPortal 3 upgrade in August 2008 and contributed the newly developed enhancements back to the open source community.    

“Johns Hopkins University once again demonstrates its leadership in information technology through its effective deployment of the uPortal 3 open source enterprise portal,” said John C. Blakley, CEO of Unicon, Inc.  “In addition to helping specify and develop key feature and performance enhancements for uPortal 3, Johns Hopkins has contributed the work done at their university to the open source community for the benefit of educational institutions and organizations worldwide.”

Johns Hopkins contributed the following uPortal 3 enhancements to the open source community:
•    Usability Evaluation & Design
•    Theme and Skin Implementation
•    Fragment Administration Portlet
•    Theme/Skin Implementations: Namespacing and JavaScript Menus with jQuery