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Still no release date set for Oracle Fusion Applications


By Alex Handy
September 25, 2008 — 
Oracle OpenWorld is becoming an annual event of smoke and mirrors, at least as far as Oracle's Fusion Middleware and Applications are concerned. While the company touted its openness at the show this week, Fusion Applications remained hidden from view.

Oracle's Fusion Middleware was first announced in 2005, along with promises of integrated applications designed to enhance collaboration through Web services. Each year since then, Oracle has been unable to put a date on their arrival. Analysts say that a management change is behind the delays, but also said that, while Oracle's applications are still missing, its middleware foundation is increasingly robust thanks to the company's purchase of BEA in January.

Yefim V. Natis, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, and Kimihiko Iijima, vice president of applications research at Gartner, agreed that Oracle's Fusion Applications are still on their way; they've simply been delayed.

Natis surmised that the delay in their arrival was due to a management shift inside the company. Late last year, shortly after CEO Larry Ellison had promised the arrival of some Fusion Applications in early 2008, Thomas Kurian was placed in charge of the entire Fusion product line. It is unclear why this shift was ordered, or why it would have slowed down the process, as Oracle would neither comment on the change nor on Fusion Applications.

According to Internet rumors, Kurian would be next in line for the CEO position at Oracle were Fusion to succeed. But first, Oracle must ship its retinue of proposed Fusion Applications. Again, this year, the company refused to give a release date.

Conversely, the company is already on track to integrate BEA's middleware into its Fusion stack: the company released a grid-ready form of WebLogic Server at the show.

Natis said that WebLogic was superior to Oracle's former application server, OC4J. “It's made the foundation stronger," he said of the Fusion stack since the BEA acquisition.

Yet existing Oracle customers basing their future on the forthcoming applications are starting to look nervous, said Natis, though he did admit that no customers he'd spoken with had yet jumped ship.

Natis estimated that Oracle could finish work on its applications some time between six months and a year from the show. He also said that he'd heard rumors of the company showing off some of these applications behind closed doors.

Oracle, for its part, was showing off its new Beehive collaboration environment. This Web-based workspace is designed to function as a hub for employee work and interactions, but seemingly contains no Fusion code.

Oracle president Charles Phillips made much of Beehive's “from scratch” creation, and no mention of Fusion was made in conjunction with the product. Oracle's Beehive is unrelated to the Apache open-source project of the same name, created by BEA.

So while Oracle's much-touted Fusion Applications aren't completely dead, it would seem that they are being, at the very least, relegated to next year's OpenWorld conference.


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