SharePoint Vs LifeRay

Similarity between SharePoint and LifeRay

No	SharePoint Server 2010	Liferay 6.0.9 CE
1	SharePoint have web Part which only render in portion of the Pages	Liferay have Portlet which also have same feature
2	Per User Website provide by SharePoint (Standard and Enterprise Edition contain this feature)	Per User custom Page is present in Liferay
3	User Profile does collaboration part for SharePoint	OpenSocial provides collaboration plugins for LifeRay
4	Finding Employee(User) is very easily	Finding Employee(User) Search is very easily
5	Visual Studio 2010 IDE contain template for SharePoint	Ellipse or Liferay Studio IDE contain template for SharePoint
6	Multi tenancy is fulfilled with Farm / Site Collection	Multi tenancy is fulfilled with Department (as per Liferay )
7	SharePoint Setup information is store in Database and registry	Liferay Setup information is store in XML file only
8	Document Versioning and Co –Worker changes can be done in SharePoint	Liferay Plug ins Social Office provide very similar feature in it.

Difference between SharePoint and Liferay

No	SharePoint Server 2010	Liferay 6.0.9 CE
1	Publishing Feature which give provision for user to have data entry pages convert into WebPages	Liferay does not have any such provision for Publishing
2	Database is very complex and customization is not recommended	Liferay Database is very simple and custom query can be written on it
3	SharePoint Designer give huge boost to Information Worker to work on it	Information worker need to be depend Developer for lots of activity which can be done by Information Worker
4	SharePoint UI is different and learning is require	Liferay UI is very simple and easily to learn in it.
5	Lots of Activity can be done without writing single line of Code	Plugins can help but still user does not have lots of controls as compare to SharePoint
6	User can View their Microsoft Office content in the Browser	Liferay does not have this provision in it
7	SharePoint Enterprise Search is too huge and provide lots of option to filter and data gathering  and so on	Liferay search is simple as compare to SharePoint Enterprise Search (Plugins can make Liferay search upto SharePoint Enterprise Search)
8	Business Connectivity Service provide option for integrated with another Enterprise Product with in Organization	Liferay does not have any such feature either Plugins or Web Service can fulfil this needs
9	SharePoint Does not have chat service integrated with it	Liferay have chat and lots of other service integrated with it (plugins are provided with setup)
10	Microsoft Own SharePoint	Community Developed and Open Source
11	Support is very Expensive from Microsoft and never come under License	Enterprise Edition provide Support which is part of the license
12	Single Instance cannot be @ zero cost  ( Windows Server 2008 R2 , SQL Server 2008 & )	Single Instance can be @ zero cost (Ubantu OS, My SQL Database)

Personnel Option

1. Liferay is very cheap and good solution for small and mid size enterprise
2. Liferay UI is too good and user can learn very easily
3. SharePoint is good tools for Rich and Large organizations
4. SharePoint have lots of feature as compare to Liferay
5. Liferay is better than other CMS tools like Dot Net Nuke , Orchard , Word Press , Joomla or Drupal

Reference

1. http://www.liferay .com
2. LifeRay Development Guide
3. LifeRay Administrator Guide
4. http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint