In 2007, the company opened a new Asian headquarters in Dalian, China, and the Spanish subsidiary Liferay SL.

To date Liferay has 22 offices worldwide [2] with over 250 partners [3] and 180,000 open source community members.

[citation needed] Sun Microsystems and Liferay signed a technology-sharing agreement during May 2008.

ZDNet further describes the relationship in the May 2008 article Sun and Liferay launch web-presentation platform.

[5] In 2010 Sun was acquired by Oracle[6] and the GlassFish Web Space Server was not included in their portal roadmap, with all prospects turned over to Liferay, Inc.