Paul discussesOracle’s comprehensive strategy and roadmap for it’s [tag]Fusion Middleware[/tag] [tag]SOA[/tag] stack. After BEA’s merger with [tag]Oracle[/tag] for $8.5 Billion,  it was predicted but one of the most awaited disclosures in the [tag]SOA[/tag] world. Here is my take on Charles Phillips’ disclosure in his 105 minute webcast:

1. There will be no forced migration for existing BEA customers.

I assume, Oracle will make it more tempting for you to move into Oracle suite rather than forcing you out of BEA. As a customer, I would never like to stay with the same version for entire lifetime. There are lots of good things happening in this world and to remain competitive, I feel its very important to be continuously upgrade to newer technologies. Oracle has beautiful plans to bring in Fusion applications. This should make things a lot easier for existing BEA customers to scale up to a pure SOA environments. (more…)