Oracle Further Orchestrates Its SOA Forays
Part Two: Strategy
P.J. Jakovljevic - March 15, 2005

Database Strategy

In light of Oracle Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) recent acquisition of PeopleSoft and its growing appetite for the competition, its easy to see how one might underestimate Oracle’s internally-developed, product strategy. However, this California-based (US) company has heeded the calls of its customers and the market by beginning a product strategy that focuses on open and flexible business processes. Ease of integration, the consolidation of databases, data models, and servers remains fundamental behind Oracle’s product developments. The following is an overview of how Oracle has developed its vision of a collaborative e-business solution, and its database, application server, and e-business strategies...