There were no new press releases from Oracle today, and the only things I found in the blogosphere were wrap-up type entries. I did find a couple of interesting analysis about Fusion and where we're at.

Here's a quote from Brian Sommer's article:

Customers should expect two forms of innovation for the foreseeable future.  Oracle will continue to embed more of the Fusion middleware into its acquired and legacy product lines.  Oracle will also continue to include smatterings of functional enhancements to each of its application lines as well as add additional industry/vertical functionality, too.

Here's a quote along the same lines from Mark Crofton's article:

 Fusion is looking to be more of a technology, than applications play. Less value for the line of business users than for IT.

• Challenges involved in a completely rewritten, unified application seem to have been too much
• The 08 version of Fusion App suite (if one is even released) will likely be separate applications forced glued together with Fusion Middleware

And deal architect has this to say:

It was a 30 year birthday celebration for Oracle and there were plenty of thank yous all the way around during the conference. But if I was an Oracle, PeopleSoft, JDE or Siebel application customer I would feel underwhelmed, even slighted. In the 3 years since Fusion has been announced they have paid Oracle over $ 10 billion in maintenance. Surely, 5 to 10% of that should have gone towards Fusion applications. Where are the results?

Comments (2)

... : David B Vandiver Thanks for the blog entries on OOW. I had a feeling two years ago that an application rewrite to make Fusion happen would be a tough mountain to climb. Looks like the Oracle Execs finally talked with the coders. One application that Oracle seldom mentions is the Student Administration; it currently resides in HRMS's PeopleSoft database, and will probably follow where ever HRMS goes. November 19, 2007 ... : chidi ozurigbo Thanks for the post! This confirms my thought that Fusion will be 'middleware' solution and not an application. IT depts will really need to do good cost-benefit analysis justifying purchase of Fusion tools. As one primarily in the PeopleSoft CRM space, it appears that Oracle will offer future CRM solutions/improvements through the Siebel application. November 29, 2007

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