Oracle’s Fusion Middleware Strategy is “Specious”
Posted by Bob Craig - Dir Prod Marketing on Thu, Jul 02, 2009
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "specious" means "having a false look of truth or genuineness." This is a strong word to use when discussing the strategy of a multi-billion dollar software vendor, yet that's exactly the word
Anne Thomas Manes used to describe the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11
g announcement on July 1.
As the market is starting to realize more and more, the strategy of the stack vendors (including Oracle, IBM, Sun, CA and others) is to dominate their customer's IT infrastructure, from desktop to data center and everything in between.
This is why we say "Hallelujah" when we see Ms. Manes flatly declare:
"As alluring as the one-stop shopping strategy is, organizations must learn to just say ‘no'. The reality is that no one has an entirely homogeneous environment. Oracle claims that Enterprise Manager supports end-to-end business process monitoring, but the concept breaks down if the process includes a .NET service or a third-party COTS application. A better solution is a management strategy that embraces diversity. Diversity in IT systems is a fact of life."
Courion's philosophy from the beginning has been to embrace the fact that every customer's IT environment is unique, heterogeneous and diverse. One reason we are able to compete effectively against much larger vendors is precisely because our Access Assurance solutions are designed to work with whatever the customer has in place.
Kudos to Ms. Manes for pointing out that this emperor has no clothes!