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September 19, 2005
Restoring an Open World
Oracle's Openworld conference this week got started with a big keynote by Charles Phillips. Oracle's push is to reemphasize open standards and Open Source in a big way. The upcoming release of the application server will support IBM's Websphere as well as Open Source Apache, Spring, and Hibernate, underlining their commitment to Open platforms and standards with a hotswappable architecture. Good stuff.
UPDATE: Just got out of Larry's talk this afternoon, and he reiterated the commitment to opening up the middle tier. Compatability with JBoss or Websphere is a dramatic shift, and welcome. But what about the database tier, one attendee asked during Q&A? In all of the aquired products, Peoplesoft, and JD Edwards, for instance, multiple backend databases will continue to be supported. Whether or not various databases will be supported with the eBiz suite is still up in the air. That it's being considered though, again, underlies a generally open stance on these questions. He also maintained that going forward, in five years, SAP as well as the Salesforce.com's of the world will continue to be serious competition.
Posted by admin at September 19, 2005 09:35 PM