Thinkovation

As we’ve now had a little more time to mull.. there are a few more considered reactions to the Oracle / BEA and Sun/MySQL news.

Oracle / BEA

James Governor’s post on the subject is worth a read - He’s absolutely right to mention the Telco market (Big OSS is a major consumer of Object middleware), but there are a couple of things that I’d challenge - Firstly while I’d agree that this move will place IBM and Oracle the leadering infrastructure vendors in SOA (although Microsoft should be mentioned) but I wouldn’t put them in positions #1 and 2# when talking about SOA generally - Home grown SOA (via PHP, python, ruby etc etc) is surely responsible for the majority of service-oriented apps that are out there today?

James also mentions a great comment by Erik Bengtson pretty much nails it in his comment on the story at InfoQ:

my take on this acquisition: OC4J, Oracle ESB, Oracle BPM, Oracle web services manager will be replaced by better BEA products, WebLogic, Aqualogic ESB, Aqualogic BPM, WL Integration, Aqualogic Enterprise Security. Oracle BAM will evolve from microsoft environment and will integrate Aqualogic BPM Bam functionality. Oracle and BEA have both licensed HP Systnet as their Service Registry, so this is an easy integration. BEA engineers will focus into Front End / Web 2.0 era..

All of that makes very good sense. But lordy! That’s not a trivial amount of stuff to do.

Sun / MySQL

Judith Hurwitz is a sceptic like many of us, Judith has watched Sun make a mess of software for a lot of years, and I understand her scepticism. I’m a little more confidant, though, that Sun can make the acquisition work and ought to be able to make it work commercially too - Although Sun really does need to work on the latter - and on explaining “how” they’ll make it work commercially.

Oh and if you like to get an “Ann Coulter”-style take on a topic - check out John Dvorak’s punditry - It’s all a conspiracy by Oracle it seems - as is global warming no doubt.

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