Collaxa was recently purchased by Oracle; Oracle made the announcement over JavaOne this week.
Collaxa's Edwin Khodabakchian gives a lengthy rationale in his blog about why Oracle and Collaxa are a good fit, and I quote-
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Three reasons: ...
(1) We discovered within Thomas Kurian's Application Server team great focus and entrepreneurial spirit, ...
(2) No "pig with lipstick" to fight with (we saw Sun kill three application servers so we were a little sensitive to internal politics!),...
(3) The database and application server provide a great foundation for delivering our BPEL server. Except for Microsoft and IBM, no other vendor offers that combination.
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The companies that should be affected by this are not just those with application server products (this Infoworld articles lists IBM and BEA as those affected), but the traditional EAI product companies. Collaxa has a pretty decent BPEL implementation, and coupled with Oracle's software suite and marketing muscle, this standards based approach to application integration will be sweep them out of the market. Eventually.
Posted by vivek at July 2, 2004 04:27 PM | TrackBack