I’m wondering who is going to win the battle. I’ve always been a fan of SAP and looking at the SAP/Oracle war I’m starting to wonder what will eventually happen between the two giants. Oracle has been buying companies like crazy – PeopleSoft, JDE, Siebel are all under Oracle’s wings. Oracle is coming up with so called “Fusion” that will eliminate these different companies and their products and merge the technology into one plaform by 2008-2009 (yeah right).
My 2 cents on this:
- It will take many years for Oracle to be able to merge everything into one finished product. To be able to accomplish something like that, they would need full support from all child companies, including those that were the victims of hostile takeovers.
- Taking completely different pieces of software, written in different languages/styles and merging them together has always been ugly, no matter what the experts say.
- Oracle simply does not have the manpower to complete Fusion in a couple of years.
- Oracle is killing healthy competition by buying small ERP vendors.
- How the heck are they planning to convert all PeopleSoft, JDE and Siebel users to Fusion? They are probably going to make them buy Fusion :)
- Oracle ERP sucks compared to MySAP 2005 (it’s a fact). It will take years for Oracle to develop something that works as beautifully as MySAP 2005 does.
- SAP should stop selling Oracle DB and move towards IBM DB2 for large enterprises and MSSQL 2005 for small to medium-size businesses. I don’t think developing a solid DB system is worth the effort for SAP at this point.
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