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Oracle Fusion: The ‘Frankenstein’ of SOA?


By Alex Handy
October 15, 2005 — 
SAN FRANCISCO — Continuing one of the hottest rivalries in the software industry, IBM and Oracle in September both announced expanded SOA offerings. But while IBM announced a home-grown enterprise service bus-centered SOA solution, Oracle showed off a series of modules that one analyst likened to the stitched-together monster of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”

Click Here for Related StoryOracle unveiled its creation at the company’s massive Oracle OpenWorld conference held here last month.

Dubbed Fusion Architecture, the company’s new SOA offerings are divided into six pieces. The first is Grid Infrastructure, an implementation of Oracle’s Database 10g spread across a grid and managed by Fusion Middleware and Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control. The second element is the Fusion Service Registry, a program that tracks all services and interfaces offered in any given network. Other pieces include Fusion Service Bus, the company’s new enterprise service bus; and Business Process Orchestration, a set of tools designed to monitor and track compliance with enterprise business policies. Fifth is Business Intelligence and Activity Monitoring, a compilation of tools based on Discoverer and other business integration tools.

And finally, Oracle brings all of these disparate pieces together in the Unified Portal. This last piece of the puzzle is designed to put Oracle’s SOA environment into the hands of users.

Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst for IT analysis firm ZapThink, said that Oracle is taking the Frankenstein approach to SOA. “They’ve been working on building out their SOA offering for a while by assembling various parts from various different companies. We liken them to the Frankenstein of the SOA world. The question is will it all work when they’re done?”

Rick Schultz, vice president of product marketing at Oracle, said Fusion is based on open standards. This, said Schultz, means that Fusion elements will function with products released by outside vendors as well, making it a versatile solution.

Fusion isn’t an entirely new product, according to Schultz, who said it has been maturing under other names within Oracle’s product spectrum.

He went on to say that his company quickly integrated the single sign-on capabilities of Oblix, a company it acquired earlier this year. Oracle, said Schultz, needed only two months to bring the Oblix functionality into its SOA framework.

ZapThink’s Bloomberg said he doubted that Oracle’s new offerings would topple IBM from the SOA throne. “I would say that IBM is always the company to beat,” said Bloomberg. “They have been a thought leader in the SOA space for quite a while now. Oracle is really trying to catch up. Oracle really has its sights set more on the business applications space than the integration space.”


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