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(Jeff Spicer) Recently, I read the comments of an industry analyst who wrote that Oracle had managed to "mystify the market by naming everything Fusion," referring to Oracle's recent product strategy announcements and releases that bear the name "Fusion."
While the analyst has a point—there is indeed a lot of fusion happening at Oracle these days—the comment doesn't take into account the fact that the various fusions—Project Fusion, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Fusion Architecture—are all tightly linked and share the same set of core values, if you will.
These values include the utilization of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the accompanying adherence to accepted industry standards, the use of business processes as the model for how a company's software should actually work, business intelligence functionality that is integrated into relevant applications, the reliance on a grid-based foundation, and the systematic management of the entire lifecycle of all information types. |
