Nickname: jemcon

Review: Oracle's latest move, to continue supporting Peoplesoft and JD Edwards Applications beyond 2013, demonstrates their recognition that the needs of the customers acquired from these rivals are too important to ignore. Many of these customers went through great pains to implement their existing ERP applications and are now productive and profitable because of their efficient use of these systems. Being forced to upgrade or migrate to another application, on a timetable that benefits Oracle simply does not make sense to these companies. Oracle will be wise to keep these customers happy with their chosen applications, so when they are ready to upgrade, Oracle will be their first choice. Gary Jacobs President, JEM Consulting, Inc. www.jemconsult.com

Date reviewed: Jun 28, 2006 7:15 PM

Nickname: Sheng

Review: Oracle/PeopleSoft's portal is still runing on BEA WebLogic isn't it? :)

Date reviewed: Dec 20, 2005 3:39 PM

Nickname: AttacusFinch

Review: Oracle is working on a plan that will make it all things to all men. Meanwhile, Web services enable organizations to custom build their own applications and introduce niche products and functionality as a part of a best-of-breed strategy. Most vendors have recognized that customers in the future will demand choice. Choice isn't a part of Oracle's stategy. I am concerned that Oracle will marginalize itself while it struggles to rationalize multiple components.

Date reviewed: Dec 19, 2005 11:16 PM

Nickname: sharat

Review: A lot can be said for the lack of license growth that Oracle is experiencing this year. They are doing quite well on the maintenance and services side, but the network license growth is down, and is down from what analysts were expecting with all the acquisitions. Granted, it is hard to compare the two, but SAP is growing licensing revenue organically and has been successful and Oracle has not. I think it's time for Oracle to focus on integrating its acquisitions as oppossed to going for more acquisitons in near future.

Date reviewed: Dec 19, 2005 1:42 AM

Nickname: jc

Review: Several Oracle DBAs also said Oracle DBMS is a piece of crap, too.

Date reviewed: Dec 18, 2005 5:31 PM

Nickname: dantheman

Review: I can't believe the press that Fusion (or Websphere, for that matter) are getting. I constantly see reports of Oracle and IBM assaulting BEA and sounding Weblogic's death knell. Yet, having been around IT for more than 20 years, and middleware for the last 10, I know of very few developers who would pick Fusion or Websphere over Weblogic (or JBoss open source for that matter). Oracle and IBM are pushing "sales" of their products the old fashioned way--they are giving it away with bundles of other products. It means a lot that certain major consumer packaged goods companies--that have huge deals with Oracle and can get their middleware for free--still go out of their way to buy Weblogic. Of course, all of the software vendors need to lower prices on their middleware (it would really speed adoption) but BEA's is still best of breed. I have to agree with other reviewer who said at best Oracle's software suite is a cobbled together mess, and IBM is not far behind in the mess category.

Date reviewed: Dec 18, 2005 4:58 PM

Nickname: Eric

Review: I have been working more than 10 years with Oracle and Oracle applications. Now I am doing SAP. By comparing two products, I can say Oracle is lost. The Oracle application now is a piece of crap, is not made in the USA. SAP is still made in Germany, quality is perserved.

Date reviewed: Dec 17, 2005 2:33 AM

Nickname: buckwheat

Review: Oracle has two application servers, its own OAS 10gR2 and the PeopleSoft Portal. The PSP presentation layer (UI) is a focused self-serve kiosk mode with little or no training needed to use or administer PSP. The PSP ergonomics reflect an effort to put software usability and ease of use at the top of the list. 10gR2 is a kludge (a better kludge than 10gR1 9.0.4), but a still a kludge. The product is a mashup rather than a seamless well-thought out product. It has a dated and overly complex UI. Oracle, in typical Larry-fashion, cobbled together something they hoped would wrapperize the database and become the Swiss-army knife of the data world. Oracle database sales accounts for 75% of revenues and increasing sophisticated users are taking a commodity view of databases in general and Oracle specifically. It is Oracle's Achilles' heel. If they can't convince customers that this Swiss-Army Knife is a legitimate value-added proposition then they are destined for death by a thousand cuts.

Date reviewed: Dec 16, 2005 10:52 PM

Nickname: Nigel

Review: You state that Oracle is gaining market share from BEA and IBM. On what basis do you state this?

Date reviewed: Dec 16, 2005 5:48 PM