Oracle Launches SOA Super-Suite at OpenWorld Conference

| Sep 25, 2008 | Application Infrastructure | Show Update

| Analyst: Michael Meehan

Current Perspective: Very Positive
Vendor Importance: Very High
Market Impact: Very High

Event Summary

September 22, 2008 -- Oracle launched an expanded SOA Suite, the result of its integration of BEA technology with Oracle Fusion middleware. The rebranded and integrated BEA offerings include: Oracle Service Bus, which integrates BEA AquaLogic Service Bus; Oracle WebLogic Suite, based on BEA WebLogic Application Server; and Oracle Enterprise Repository, based on BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository.

Analytical Summary

• Current Perspective: Very positive on Oracle’s addition of BEA’s most prominent SOA tools to its SOA Suite. The WebLogic Application Server, AquaLogic Repository, and the combined Oracle/BEA ESB, bundled within the Oracle SOA Suite gives Oracle a mature and fairly complete SOA platform that ranks at the front of a crowded market, alongside IBM.

• Vendor Importance: Very high to Oracle, which is attempting to move past Microsoft and SAP in the application infrastructure market with its sights set on market leader IBM. SOA has become the battlefield for this contest, where application modernization meets rapid assembly tools, agile business processes and dynamic management. Oracle’s SOA Suite additions address the weakest parts of its development and runtime SOA offerings.

• Market Impact: Very high on the middleware software and services market over the long-term. BEA had a strong SOA/Java product portfolio, and Oracle is doing an excellent job of combining that with its own product set. The additions improve Oracle’s standing in the Java development, application integration and SOA governance categories. If Oracle can leverage its existing sales channel and customer base with this expanded SOA offering, it stands to become the Big Red competitor to IBM’s Big Blue.

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