Oracle Fusion

Finally Oracle had a wonderful strategy.
They bought PeopleSoft, Siebel, Tuxedo and then BEA.

For an outsider at the first look it might look like, they made lot of money out of
RDBMS and ERP and they are spending now.

Whereas Oracle has put their money in where the future is and have slowly integrated
these products together through FUSION middleware.

Fusion again is a great concept from oracle, using the latest industry standards for integration.
You name it, its there.
> ESB
> Service Oriented Architecture
> XML, Webservices, Adapters
> SOA Governance
> A Powerful application server (Thanks for the deal with BEA :¬) )
>BPEL Tools
> BAM (business activity monitoring)
> SAML
> Idenity management
> J2EE
> Jdeveloper studio.

Now there are three types of techies approaching these
> Those who come from Oracle, forms, PL/SQL background
> Those who come from strong EAI and SOA background
> Those who come from strong J2EE background.

Now each techie based on which of these three backgrounds they come from, would and will think that they can have a good hold on fusion.

The truth is, whichever background techies come from they have to be quick in learning about the other side of the wall to mature into a proper fusion expert.

My view is that, Fusion has been guided into an excellent launching pad by Oracle and will stay in the industry for a forseeable future. Its got all flavours to make it successful.

The competitors are behind now. But to bring in variety of robust products together will remain a challenge difficult to be fulfilled in near future.

Oracle has clearly seen this in advance and is leveraging on it strategic strength now.

The nearest competitor initially refused that there is concept called ESB for a while and is now starting to accept it.. When they will catch up with fusion may be a distant dream..

Another competitor who drove ESB from forefront has failed to see that there are other products required to make ESB successful. Thats where i think Oracle gained its edge.

The beauty of their strategic vision is when oracle realised that BEA's Weblogic is more powerful App server than their own and accepted it and brought it under its wings.

Anyway you look at it, there is definitely an exciting future with FUSION.

You can expect some more about fusion from me for now..

I am so excited about this.