Hot-Pluggable…

 

Hot-Pluggable” was one of the big buzzwords at OpenWorld 2007. The message Oracle were trying to convey was that an organization doesn’t have to use the total Oracle stack. Of course, they would prefer them to, but if an organization already has an investment in non-Oracle technology, that doesn’t exclude them from snapping pieces of Oracle technology into the mix.

I listened to this message with more than a little skepticism, not really believing that Oracle would actually make their applications available to run on alternative databases and application servers, but it does seem like this plan may pay off in two ways.

  1. Oracle will be able to sell products to sites that already have a heavy investment in non-Oracle technologies. That’s the obvious message that is being touted, which I already mentioned it in the opening paragraph.
  2. The future acquisition of companies would be far easier for Oracle, as their newly acquired products could just slot into fusion middleware from day-one.

I’ve never heard Oracle suggest option 2 as a reason for the Hot-Pluggable buzz, but the talk of acquiring BEA make me think it may be as important to Oracle as option 1. WebLogic would just snap right in there, no messin’. Bob’s your uncle. 🙂

Enough of the conspiracy theories.

Cheers

Tim…

Author: Tim...

DBA, Developer, Author, Trainer.

2 thoughts on “Hot-Pluggable…”

  1. Hi Tim,

    Very insightful!

    >> as their newly acquired products could just slot into fusion middleware from day-one

    If I’m not mistaken, the buld of Oracle’s revenue comes from their apps offerings. The competition (SAP) runs on many platforms, so it makes sense to offer database independent apps . . .

  2. “Oracle Unbreakable, can’t break in, can’t break in” Still one of my favorite ad slogans. Given the natue of the CPU’s untrue, but memorable none the less.

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