A lot of speculation about the fate of BPM and other BEA goodies after what Sandy calls “the Borg” has its way with them. Oracle will reveal all in a public webcast on July 1 at 9am PT/noon ET. To the analysts they wrote:
On July 1st at Noon EDT/9:00 am PDT/5:00 pm in London, as [...]
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I see my friend Jesper is moving on from BEA, so the reality of the Oracle acquisition is finally sinking in. When I hear people say that Oracle bought BEA for their BPM, I have to laugh. I’m fairly confident the Oracle crew that went after BEA could not even spell BPM. But no doubt [...]
Surprisingly little information has reached public view concerning BPMN 2.0, now under consideration in OMG. Unlike most standards approval processes, the outcome of this one is not preordained. There are two submissions, quite different, and it could go either way.
Oracle’s Vishal Saxena notes that one reason BPMN 1.x has been so successful is that it “keeps [...]
Regarding TIBCO’s first-ever “analyst summit” at their annual user conference, I’ll leave it to Sandy to record the actual content of the presentations to analysts. I’ll stick to the impressionistic view. Apparently “the analysts” had told TIBCO they wanted to hear executives talk about go-to-market strategy, so we got almost nothing about product and an awful [...]
Alex Toussaint offers a peek at AquaLogic BPM’s improved BPMN support in the upcoming v6.1. The palette will include standard BPMN icons such asXOR, OR, and AND gateways, timer and message intermediate events, and I’m glad to see it. Now I just wish they could figure out a way to drag them out of the [...]
At Impact three weeks ago I just got the drive-by version, but now that I’ve gotten the full analyst deep dive, I have to say that IBM now really does seem to have its act together on BPM. The current v6.1 offering has a lot of the improvement built in already, and the July v6.1.2 [...]
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