Oracle acquires SOA management vendor
September 2, 2008 —
Continuing a string of acquisitions, Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearApp, a provider of application management solutions for SOA-based applications.
Oracle made the announcement of the acquisition today, and the transaction is expected to close before the end of the year—pending closing conditions.
Both companies will continue to operate independently until the deal closes, according to Oracle, and financial terms were not disclosed.
The combination of ClearApp products with Oracle Enterprise Manager will reduce downtime and improve service levels by providing greater visibility of business services across all related application components, Oracle stated in a press release.
ClearApp's flagship product is QuickVision, which, according to the company, provides automated application performance management and correlates the services provided by applications to the underlying code components supporting those services.
“Deep visibility into the components underlying SOA-based composite applications is a critical part of the SOA management story, and that's what ClearApp brings to Oracle," wrote Jason Bloomberg, a managing partner with ZapThink, in an e-mail.
However, Bloomberg commented that the acquisition raises more questions than it answers, noting that Oracle had already acquired a group of companies that develop similar products, such as Auptyma, BEA Systems, Confluent Software and Moniforce.
Bloomberg questioned how many management vendors Oracle must acquire before it has a coherent SOA management story, and he said that the company was essentially following a “Frankenstein” strategy by putting a lot of parts together and “hoping for lightning.”
“Will Oracle be able to take this cobbled-together story and compete both with the established incumbents like HP and IBM Tivoli, as well as focused players like Tidal Intersperse?” he asked. He added that Oracle has experience in assimilating acquired technologies and for taking care of customers that come along as a result.
“But every such acquisition sets the bar of success higher for them,” he observed.
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