Comments on: Oracle BEA Strategy Briefing

By: Jaywalk » Oracle’s BEA acquisition strategy

Jaywalk » Oracle’s BEA acquisition strategy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:28:25 +0000

[...] was unable to attend Oracle’s BEA Strategy Briefing on July 1, but fortunately enough I made it to their respective BEA Day in Hotel Kämp, Helsinki, [...]

By: Kevin Apte

Kevin Apte — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:58:18 +0000

What is happening to Aqualogic Data Service Platform? Many Enterprise Portals are very critical to the company. How will they migrate to WebCenter 2.0?

By: Kamal

Kamal — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:45:55 +0000

Great work Sandy,Appreciated,One slight disagreement on merging A-BPMN and BPEL process Manager.Because Oracle SOA suite is the only one who make the conepts of interrelated technology in much better way.Lots of middleware do the everything but when time comes for new comers to understand the different between those ,is a nightmare.Anyways..good luck for freshers

By: Sandy Kemsley

Sandy Kemsley — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:03:46 +0000

Erik, I agree that a lot of these are incompatible, such that the idea of convergence is pure nonsense. I predict a lot of unhappy Oracle and BEA customers over the next couple of years as Oracle re-jigs all of this.

By: Sandy Kemsley

Sandy Kemsley — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:01:52 +0000

Andrei, I added all the product roadmap slides here, in case you don’t want to bother going through the replay.

Krish, there’s a slide in that set on the app server roadmap; I didn’t comment on that since that’s not my area of interest, but BEA WebLogic Server is labelled as “strategic” while Oracle App Server is “continue & converge”, stating that the OAS key features will be integrated into the WebLogic Server.

By: links for 2008-07-02 « steinarcarlsen

links for 2008-07-02 « steinarcarlsen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:31:08 +0000

[...] Oracle BEA Strategy Briefing (tags: bpm oracle bea cx) [...]

By: krish

krish — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:47:28 +0000

I did not see where the app server (being the platform for all the mentioned components) is headed to.
Will weblogic server replace Oracle app server as underlying app container?

By: Erik Bengtson

Erik Bengtson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:46:26 +0000

Pure marketing! hot-pluggable? hmm not really. all JCA connectors said Oracle, are actually iWay software. Oracle software already supports BEA middleware, yes! BUUT the old version 8 of WebLogic.

Convergence? all these products are totally incompatible, overlap in features and use proprietary interfaces. forget about standards here…

A nice mise en scene to hide all the crap they will do in 2 years time to integrate all this.

By: Andrei Filimonov

Andrei Filimonov — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:35:10 +0000

I didn’t get to see the slide my connection was timing out So my statement was based on what I heard Thomas Kurian was saying. I guess it doesn’t make that much of a difference - “continue & converge” to me looks no more then a marketing spin anyway.

By: Sandy Kemsley

Sandy Kemsley — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:59:59 +0000

It was clearly stated: both WebLogic Portal and AL-UI were shown on the slide as “continue & converge”.