Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Oracle and Sun tie the knot
Oracle and Sun tie the knot: "Praise for Java, criticism for SAP
During the meeting, Ellison took a moment to emphasize the importance his company places on Oracle, but the tender moment quickly turned into an opportunity to slam his firm's chief rival, Germany's SAP AG.
'We have based our entire middleware strategy on Java, [Java 2 Enterprise Edition] and Java-based portals. Our integration approach, everything is really built around Java,' Ellison said.
'SAP believes that they can modernize their applications without changing them,' Ellison continued. 'They keep writing programs in a language called ABAP [Advanced Business Application Programming], which is a 25-year-old proprietary language not related to Java. It has the same number of letters in its name, but it really is an old-fashioned proprietary technology.' "
During the meeting, Ellison took a moment to emphasize the importance his company places on Oracle, but the tender moment quickly turned into an opportunity to slam his firm's chief rival, Germany's SAP AG.
'We have based our entire middleware strategy on Java, [Java 2 Enterprise Edition] and Java-based portals. Our integration approach, everything is really built around Java,' Ellison said.
'SAP believes that they can modernize their applications without changing them,' Ellison continued. 'They keep writing programs in a language called ABAP [Advanced Business Application Programming], which is a 25-year-old proprietary language not related to Java. It has the same number of letters in its name, but it really is an old-fashioned proprietary technology.' "
