Normally when I refer to 'Oracle' on this blog, I refer to 'Enterprise IT Oracle'. This time I am however referring to Larry Ellison's Oracle Corporation on this blog. It is because its acquisition of one of the significant technologies of 21st century, viz. Java programming language and associated paraphernalia.
This is BIG. Large chunk of enterprise IT is done these days, using Java technology and it is assumed to be 'De facto' and 'open' standard. Now with Oracle's acquisition of Sun, the openness of Java is under question.
What should organisations with large Java investments do? Well IBM is one of those, with large Java investments. Most of IBM's Internet stack under WebSphere brand is based on Java. What would IBM do?
What would other hardware vendors like HP, Dell do? Do we see three hardware blocks emerging? Sun/Oracle, HP/Microsoft and IBM? Where would Cisco/Google servers fit in this scheme of things?
Continuing this analogy would we see three software blocks viz, Java, .Net and possibly IBM's own Java like technology (may be a rehashed EGL with its own byte code) emerging?
Will cloud providers be bound to one of these blocks? If these three blocks start erecting Chinese walls around themselves, in order to lock customers in, then how does one allow seamless movement from one 'cloud' provider to another?
What would be de-risking strategy for enterprises, to avoid a lock-in within one of these blocks, even in an on-premise scenario? Does MDA sound attractive now? Is it the time that enterprises start focusing on separating their intellectual property from execution platforms?
Interesting times. Time to activate your enterprise IT Oracle and see which parts of Enterprise Architecture needs re-looking.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Oracle's Java
Normally when I refer to 'Oracle' on this blog, I refer to 'Enterprise IT Oracle'. This time I am however referring to Larry Ellison's Oracle Corporation on this blog. It is because its acquisition of one of the significant technologies of 21st century, viz. Java programming language and associated paraphernalia.
This is BIG. Large chunk of enterprise IT is done these days, using Java technology and it is assumed to be 'De facto' and 'open' standard. Now with Oracle's acquisition of Sun, the openness of Java is under question.
What should organisations with large Java investments do? Well IBM is one of those, with large Java investments. Most of IBM's Internet stack under WebSphere brand is based on Java. What would IBM do?
What would other hardware vendors like HP, Dell do? Do we see three hardware blocks emerging? Sun/Oracle, HP/Microsoft and IBM? Where would Cisco/Google servers fit in this scheme of things?
Continuing this analogy would we see three software blocks viz, Java, .Net and possibly IBM's own Java like technology (may be a rehashed EGL with its own byte code) emerging?
Will cloud providers be bound to one of these blocks? If these three blocks start erecting Chinese walls around themselves, in order to lock customers in, then how does one allow seamless movement from one 'cloud' provider to another?
What would be de-risking strategy for enterprises, to avoid a lock-in within one of these blocks, even in an on-premise scenario? Does MDA sound attractive now? Is it the time that enterprises start focusing on separating their intellectual property from execution platforms?
Interesting times. Time to activate your enterprise IT Oracle and see which parts of Enterprise Architecture needs re-looking.
This is BIG. Large chunk of enterprise IT is done these days, using Java technology and it is assumed to be 'De facto' and 'open' standard. Now with Oracle's acquisition of Sun, the openness of Java is under question.
What should organisations with large Java investments do? Well IBM is one of those, with large Java investments. Most of IBM's Internet stack under WebSphere brand is based on Java. What would IBM do?
What would other hardware vendors like HP, Dell do? Do we see three hardware blocks emerging? Sun/Oracle, HP/Microsoft and IBM? Where would Cisco/Google servers fit in this scheme of things?
Continuing this analogy would we see three software blocks viz, Java, .Net and possibly IBM's own Java like technology (may be a rehashed EGL with its own byte code) emerging?
Will cloud providers be bound to one of these blocks? If these three blocks start erecting Chinese walls around themselves, in order to lock customers in, then how does one allow seamless movement from one 'cloud' provider to another?
What would be de-risking strategy for enterprises, to avoid a lock-in within one of these blocks, even in an on-premise scenario? Does MDA sound attractive now? Is it the time that enterprises start focusing on separating their intellectual property from execution platforms?
Interesting times. Time to activate your enterprise IT Oracle and see which parts of Enterprise Architecture needs re-looking.
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