Friday, April 20, 2007
SAP says Project X plasters over Fusion cracks - CBRonline.com
SAP says Project X plasters over Fusion cracks - CBRonline.com: "However Moore begged to differ.
'Oracle likes to paint Oracle as being standards-based and everyone else as proprietary. That's pretty rich given that all 28 of their business applications are written in proprietary languages.'
Moore said that SAP's own enterprise application service offerings are all standards-based around SOA. 'There are around 75 three letter acronyms that our services comply with.'
He pointed to over 13,000 customers today using the SAP NetWeaver platform to build standards-based SOA applications.
'We wish [Oracle] would stop trying to mischaracterize us as not being standards-based when in fact we've built our business applications suite on standards from day one.'
'We have in excess of 1,000 standard services and integration points to tie into SAP applications suite today.'
Moore believes that integration initiatives like Project X are symptomatic of Oracle's 'growth by acquisition' strategy. Oracle has forked out almost $20bn in buying companies like Siebel and PeopleSoft over the past three years.
'Oracle has been distracted buying companies. They have integrated people but have done nothing so far to integrate technologies.'
Moore said that strategy also has a profound impact on Oracle's ability to churn out innovative new products.
'If you decide that your strategy is not to innovate yourself but instead to just buy-up innovative companies, then it's not surprising that it doesn't lead to new innovation.' "
'Oracle likes to paint Oracle as being standards-based and everyone else as proprietary. That's pretty rich given that all 28 of their business applications are written in proprietary languages.'
Moore said that SAP's own enterprise application service offerings are all standards-based around SOA. 'There are around 75 three letter acronyms that our services comply with.'
He pointed to over 13,000 customers today using the SAP NetWeaver platform to build standards-based SOA applications.
'We wish [Oracle] would stop trying to mischaracterize us as not being standards-based when in fact we've built our business applications suite on standards from day one.'
'We have in excess of 1,000 standard services and integration points to tie into SAP applications suite today.'
Moore believes that integration initiatives like Project X are symptomatic of Oracle's 'growth by acquisition' strategy. Oracle has forked out almost $20bn in buying companies like Siebel and PeopleSoft over the past three years.
'Oracle has been distracted buying companies. They have integrated people but have done nothing so far to integrate technologies.'
Moore said that strategy also has a profound impact on Oracle's ability to churn out innovative new products.
'If you decide that your strategy is not to innovate yourself but instead to just buy-up innovative companies, then it's not surprising that it doesn't lead to new innovation.' "
