Sex on the Brain at CMP

CMP’s TechWeb syndicates my blog, and someone posted a question re my recent post about The Future of BPM at BEA/Oracle.  When I tried to reply, the CMP site rejected it for sexual innuendo or something.  You be the judge.

The comment:

I did not see any speific remarks about Aqualogic in your article and pose this question to you:
Given the current apabilities of Aqualogic and Oracle’s existing ‘positioning’ of its (OEMd) BPA suite, would not Oracle be able to deliver its BPMS offering that way (I think that’s what you are saying) BUT also support the business apps (BPM+SOA) using the same ‘tools’ (thereby eliminating the requirement & assoiated additional EBITDA impact of having to use the OEM ARIS offering)?

My attempted response:

ALBPM stands for AquaLogic BPM, so I believe it was specifically referenced in the post.  BPA Suite (ARIS) is at heart a repository for architectural artifacts related to BPM.  The role it plays in Oracle’s BPMS, as a BPMN modeling tool that generates BPEL, is a tiny fraction of what you pay for in that offering.  If you don’t care about the architectural repository, I am saying yes ALBPM used as a unified modeling/design/runtime for process is simpler than gluing ARIS BPMN to BPEL via a mapping that sort of works.  But ARIS has specific features related to Oracle apps that make ditching it hard to do.

Intercession by CMP’s sex police:

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