Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

For those of us that inhabit the Oracle Ecosystem, the Fusion Middleware 11g release is an enormous shifting tectonic plate.

I went back and looked at my notes from Oracle OpenWorld 2007. That's November 2007, more than 18 months ago. Virtually our whole ACE Director middleware session was focused on upcoming features of the 11g release. On July 1st Oracle FMW 11g will be launched. Unforunately I have no advance information of the exact makeup of the upcoming release. Based on almost 6 years of experience as an Oracle partner, I'd be quite shocked if Weblogic, SOA, WebCenter, BI, UCM/ECM, Forms, Reports, Parfait, Beehive, OIM, OVD, OAM, Portal all came out at once. (one of those is fake) So life as an Oracle-focused SI are gonna be a little weird for the next few months. As exciting as all the new shiny toys are, at what point do we put our relationships with our clients on the line by recommending 11g over 10.1.X? Such is the life of an Oracle SI.

Meanwhile, after a brief slowdown, business on the SOA/Integration front is full speed ahead. We've seen more interest in Oracle SOA than ever before. Former/current BEA and Sun customers have been beating down our doors (thanks Larry), and we're seeing an uptick in interest in AIA.

I haven't blogged in a while, twittter is just so much easier to keep updated. Blog posts take a an awful lot of time to compose compared to 140 character tidbits. My twitter user name is @jcjones1515 if you're interested.