samedi 7 septembre 2013

(Oracle AIA) Veille technologique : "The Customer Comes Second…..Oracle’s Engineered for Investors Software Stack"

http://www.eaconsult.com/2011/10/10/the-customer-comes-second%E2%80%A6-oracle%E2%80%99s-engineered-for-investors-software-stack/

"Four (or five, depending on how you count it) main product lines, each with its own code base. And literally dozens of other products, acquired with the goal of improving shareholder value, most of which also came with their own proprietary software or data models. Hundreds of business processes, many overlapping and redundant from one product to the next. And a big, hairy-chested middleware “suite” – Fusion Middleware – that is itself a conglomeration of technologies – a little Java here, some BEA and BPEL there, some MDM, some analytics , some DBMS technology, the more the merrier, all jammed into a one-size-fits-no-one morass of integration options. To simplify things, they also have an integration system called AIA that is used infrequently for the very reason that it’s an expensive, complex, technically challenging, and hard to cost-justify Tower of Babel erected to a false deity, the Oracle integrated software stack."