Like the mainframe, enterprise resource planning software soldiers on, though companies complain about its inflexibility. Oracle just took a significant step toward softening that rigidity with its new Application Integration Architecture (AIA), announced by Oracle president Chuck Phillips at the company
Oracle Corp. plans to purchase Tangosol Inc., a U.S. provider of in-memory data grid software, as a way to further extend its Fusion middleware and make it more appealing to users where rapid access to data is critical to their businesses
As part of the Fusion Middleware family of products, last month Oracle Corp. launched its Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One targeting the mid-market. The recently announced Oracle Fusion Middleware brand consolidates the company's middleware offerings including Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Data Hubs and Oracle Collaboration Suite into a single family of infrastructure software.