Oracle lives in a different era compared to CA. Backward compatibility was assured by IBM platform(most of the CA products are mainframe =2C legacy b ased) so the need to maitain CA product were very minimal. That does not me an they do not have team that maintains Easytrieve.
I was talking about the conceptual similarities rather functional differenc es.
I am sure JDE would live longer and better under Oracle=2C although I have my doubts about this whole Fusion thing. I won't be suprised=2C if Fusion t urns out to be Oracle's EAI managing a bunch of adapter under a sleek GUI.
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Subject: Re: RE: Half - Life of JDE
Date: Wed=2C 26 Aug 2009 14:39:09 -0500
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Oracle is going the way Computer Associate(CA) went a decade ago when they started acquiring products developed in the Mainframe space. This is all a bout market share and the keeping the customer base.
There is a huge difference between the way CA worked and the way Oracle's a cquisitions are working.
CA went after smaller software vendors - and continued to try and support t he products after they had paid off the development staff (who left) - endi ng up with most of the products becoming "frozen" and very quickly being ov ertaken by new technologies appearing (like the changes in OS and Network s ystems !)
Oracle is taking over larger companies=2C and ensuring that the developers continue to be employed - safeguarding the products potential for growth an d increased functionality. Look at JDE for an example=2C almost all the cor e technical developers are still working at Oracle/JDE=2C and since they to ok over Peoplesoft/JDE - there have been at least 3 major new releases of t he software (and a bunch of tools releases) - each adding new functionality both technically as well as in the apps themselves.
Oracle is also committed to "tying together" the products - so there is a l ong-term strategy to ensure the future of their product line. Unlike CA=2C which continued to have their purchased product lines run independently of each other=2C Oracle is making sure that their products can communicate wit h one another AND supports their underlying technology products (database =2C middleware and application server technology).
Oracle has made some interesting decisions - but look carefully at their pr oduct portfolio now=2C and you can see that there is an underlying strategy to ensure that they completely own the business software market. The compa ny is now one of the most diversified software companies out there - but th ey have concentrated on acquiring companies that support medium to large bu siness.
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