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Oracle buys BEA as Expected

By Jim Sinur | January 16, 2008

Today, Oracle announced the acquisition BEA, finally. There have been rumors for years now about this acquisition, so this is no surprise to many. Oracle is painting this as a complimentary acquisition, but there are significant areas of technology overlap. Both organizations have deep integration capabilities, adapters, and system to system BPM.  

Bottom Line:

The integration market has been headed towards a commodity market for years now. This is a consolidation play and Oracle is buying a customer base.  I see little opportunity in a technology cross sell with this acquisition, but this is good news for Oracle application customers that are leveraging BEA products.

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Topics: BPM |

One Response to “Oracle buys BEA as Expected”

  1. Oracle’s Ellison Takes Aim at Microsoft, IBM - Mergers and Integrations Says:
    June 12th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    [...] market for years now. This is a consolidation play and Oracle is buying a customer base,” Jim Sinur, chief strategy officer at Global 360, wrote on his blog. The Intelligent Enterprise article points out that the deal brings in some big-name BEA clients, [...]

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