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    Oracle Will Support WebSphere in Project Fusion

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    Lisa Vaas
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    September 20, 2005
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      SAN FRANCISCO—IBMs WebSphere will be an additional run-time environment for Oracles Project Fusion applications, Oracle announced at its OpenWorld conference here on Monday.

      Project Fusion is Oracle Corp.s ongoing effort to meld the best functionality from the slew of applications it has acquired in a prolonged buying spree.

      Oracle previously announced that it would support PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards applications through 2013 and that it will continue to support IBMs DB2 database while evaluating how the rival database will fit into Project Fusion.

      But out of the vast array of products encompassed by the WebSphere family, the DB2 database has grim prospects for getting tightly knit into Oracles technology.

      “We havent come to any conclusion on the database,” said Oracle President Charles Phillips during a question and answer session with the press following his Monday keynote on the opening day of the conference.

      The fate of DB2 support in Fusion is now being scrutinized by a Fusion strategy council that includes customers, Phillips said. A large part of what theyre considering is how highly customized and highly functional Oracles bread-and-butter database is, he said.

      “We go through the litany of [Oracle database] features with customers,” he said. “Once they see what theyd have to give up to support multiple databases,” customers start to lose enthusiasm, he said.

      /zimages/5/28571.gifOracle announces lifetime support for all of its acquired applications. Click here to read more.

      “Theres a reason why we have the [database] market share we have,” Phillips said. “Things are less organic, less secure [off of Oracle databases]. … Weve solved most middleware problems with IBM. But the database is less standard in how it works.”

      Oracle is aiming to conclude the Fusion strategy review of DB2 in under a year, Philips said.

      The companies will also be studying which other, non-database areas in which to cooperate, both in terms of whats beneficial for customers and whats technologically feasible. The companies will also be jointly proposing standards where necessary.

      The companies pledged to provide proof points on the way to WebSphere support. Already, J.D. Edwards applications are JSR 168-compliant, which means that J.D. Edwards application portlets can be rendered in WebSphere portal.

      The companies also expect to enable J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle E-Business Suite to support WebSphere and Tivoli in the areas of identity management, single sign-on and directories.

      Project Fusion applications will be able to run on either Oracle Fusion Middleware or WebSphere as middleware platforms.

      /zimages/5/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest database news, reviews and analysis.

      Lisa Vaas
      Lisa Vaas is News Editor/Operations for eWEEK.com and also serves as editor of the Database topic center. Since 1995, she has also been a Webcast news show anchorperson and a reporter covering the IT industry. She has focused on customer relationship management technology, IT salaries and careers, effects of the H1-B visa on the technology workforce, wireless technology, security, and, most recently, databases and the technologies that touch upon them. Her articles have appeared in eWEEK's print edition, on eWEEK.com, and in the startup IT magazine PC Connection. Prior to becoming a journalist, Vaas experienced an array of eye-opening careers, including driving a cab in Boston, photographing cranky babies in shopping malls, selling cameras, typography and computer training. She stopped a hair short of finishing an M.A. in English at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She earned a B.S. in Communications from Emerson College. She runs two open-mic reading series in Boston and currently keeps bees in her home in Mashpee, Mass.
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