At Oracle Open World yesterday, industry analysts got a good look at Oracle’s BPM strategy and roadmap in the wake of the BEA acquisition. Overall, my conclusion is Oracle is showing the rest of the world the right way to do software acquisitions. BPM is progressing along the path of “interoperate, integrate, unify” that Oracle claims it [...]
Today Oracle lifted the veil on its plans for BEA. Naturally, Oracle said the acquisition as a whole was not just for market share, but for BEA’s technology, which would all become part of the Fusion middleware platform. There was a lot of material presented, but I’ll focus on the product convergence plan as it [...]
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 [...]
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