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Leadership role within the Eclipse Open Source Project

Eclipse is the only way I see this Fusion.

Almost a year ago I attended an Oracle Developers conference where I took Oracle to be saying that its own developer product (JBuilder) and all those Oracle forms as well as AJAX were old school. The newbes to the industry (the Web 2.0 kids) would be using Eclipse in some form. This makes sense. Today Oracle has a leading role in the Eclipes project.

SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft make most of their money from the platform and - with the exception of Microsoft - from consulting, rather than from tool sales. A company like the one that provides Crystal Reports provides Fusion like capabilities. However, Oracle provides mechanisms for managing SQL Server from Microsoft via thier enterprise management software. There is no black and white. I tend to think that the most productive coders use the best tools and shun deals like those provided by Microsoft where you become a solution partner and get all your tools for free - none of them advanced really past the beta stage. (Microsoft just dosen't make its money from tools and hence they get low priority) Today Eclipes is the run away.

IBM got a jump on Oracle with its Rational line of tools because the base code for Eclipse origniated from IBM. Nonetheless, Oracle need only provide add/plug ins to Eclipse like SAP is doing and bang its right in IBM's game.

Using SAP as an example, the next flavor of Rational Application Developer (an Eclipes tool) will be SAP friendly. This means it will include not only the ability to discover SAP web services but also wizards that will generate the code and artifacts necessary to use those.

The acquisition strategy of Oracle is nothing new to the industry. Microsoft has really been in that business for a long time. The notion that innovation and research and developmet are Microsoft's business is an incorrect one. Another company - Computer Associates - has long done so as well.

What is different is that there are now Industry Standards which can be relied on for plugging the acquired products together. You can not do this with .Net. Its a Java world for fusion.

Frank L. Mighetto CCP

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