Is SOA/open source a threat or boost for Oracle?
17th Nov 2006, 05:31 GMT
In the wake of Oracles OpenWorld confab a couple of weeks back, I had the opportunity to join ZDNet blogging colleague Dana Gardner, along with Steve Garone and Neil Macehiter, for one of Danas rousing "BriefingsDirect SOA" podcasts. (Link to the podcast and transcript posted here.) Oracles strength in the database is actually an aspect of the service-oriented strategy that they haven’t talked up significantly. One of the topics we bounced around was whether Oracles latest moves were to fend off the specter of commodization, thanks to creeping service abstraction and open source in the database and application stack.My own observation was that Oracle had to move more aggressively into the middleware space. Oracle is in the thick ...
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