Robert Robinson
Reputable Poster
This is a bit involved, so give me a moment for setup...
As we have all seen by now, SAP acquired Business Objects (the folks who produce Crystal). Knowing the acrimony between Oracle and SAP, I began asking about the future of Crystal as bundled with JDE. A product manager at Oracle got back with me yesterday, and stated that Crystal would be phased out of the JDE bundle, but support for XI would continue (for existing users) for "a couple of years". I then asked about the product of choice to replace Crystal; the product manager stated that it would be the XML publisher. Said XML publisher was bundled in 8.96, but takes on greater prominence in 8.97 (of course, with app release 8.12 - shazbat!). He then mentioned a couple of interesting points:
* Output in E8.12/8.97 is in XML (with an option for pdf). As a company going to MS SharePoint, that is exciting news)
* "Red Stack" customers would be able to use the XML publisher at no additional charge, while "Blue Stack" customers would likely have to pay an additional licensing fee for the publisher.
At long last, my question: could one of the experts give a thumbnail of the "Red Stack" v "Blue Stack" discussion? My knowledge on this is limited to Red = Oracle, Blue=IBM (and that WebSphere is "Blue Stack" terrirory). Also, what turns a "Blue" Stack "Green"? (The use of Microsoft products?). I have also seen support cases where "Purple" Stack (a mix of WebSphere App Server and OracleAS Portal, for example) is not supported by Oracle.
As we have all seen by now, SAP acquired Business Objects (the folks who produce Crystal). Knowing the acrimony between Oracle and SAP, I began asking about the future of Crystal as bundled with JDE. A product manager at Oracle got back with me yesterday, and stated that Crystal would be phased out of the JDE bundle, but support for XI would continue (for existing users) for "a couple of years". I then asked about the product of choice to replace Crystal; the product manager stated that it would be the XML publisher. Said XML publisher was bundled in 8.96, but takes on greater prominence in 8.97 (of course, with app release 8.12 - shazbat!). He then mentioned a couple of interesting points:
* Output in E8.12/8.97 is in XML (with an option for pdf). As a company going to MS SharePoint, that is exciting news)
* "Red Stack" customers would be able to use the XML publisher at no additional charge, while "Blue Stack" customers would likely have to pay an additional licensing fee for the publisher.
At long last, my question: could one of the experts give a thumbnail of the "Red Stack" v "Blue Stack" discussion? My knowledge on this is limited to Red = Oracle, Blue=IBM (and that WebSphere is "Blue Stack" terrirory). Also, what turns a "Blue" Stack "Green"? (The use of Microsoft products?). I have also seen support cases where "Purple" Stack (a mix of WebSphere App Server and OracleAS Portal, for example) is not supported by Oracle.