Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Australian IT - Oracle backpedals on Fusion (Andrew Colley, APRIL 25, 2006)
Australian IT - Oracle backpedals on Fusion (Andrew Colley, APRIL 25, 2006): "Anderson stood his ground when asked asked if Oracle was using the ad hoc stitching approach it previously ruled out.
'You were under the assumption that Fusion as the suite of applications was a brand-new complete rewrite - take all the best ideas from whatever we had acquired and roll that out in 2008,' he said.
'That was never really the strategy.
'We have this big competitor that likes to pretend we said that, and maybe we should have made our messaging clearer.
'The idea was to get to a set of applications based 100 per cent on standards coded in Java, running on a SQL database and supporting all the different standards that you have in the middleware space.
'It turns out that the e-business suite is a good starting point from that perspective.
'It's written 80 plus per cent in Java, it uses standard SQL, so that was always going to be the starting point to take in all the best intellectual property from all the PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards, and now Siebel product lines, and use that to build next-generation products.'
Martin Power, president of AUSOUG, Oracle's Australian user group, was unable to explain Andersen's comments. "
'You were under the assumption that Fusion as the suite of applications was a brand-new complete rewrite - take all the best ideas from whatever we had acquired and roll that out in 2008,' he said.
'That was never really the strategy.
'We have this big competitor that likes to pretend we said that, and maybe we should have made our messaging clearer.
'The idea was to get to a set of applications based 100 per cent on standards coded in Java, running on a SQL database and supporting all the different standards that you have in the middleware space.
'It turns out that the e-business suite is a good starting point from that perspective.
'It's written 80 plus per cent in Java, it uses standard SQL, so that was always going to be the starting point to take in all the best intellectual property from all the PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards, and now Siebel product lines, and use that to build next-generation products.'
Martin Power, president of AUSOUG, Oracle's Australian user group, was unable to explain Andersen's comments. "
