{"id":290,"date":"2009-07-16T17:15:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T22:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2009-07-16T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T22:17:03","slug":"oracle-bea-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/16\/oracle-bea-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle + BEA Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/02\/oracle-bea\/\">wrote about Oracle&#8217;s plan on how to combine BEA Weblogic and OAS<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 A long time went by before any more information appeared &#8211; we met with our Oracle reps last week to figure out what the deal is.\u00a0 The answer wasn&#8217;t much more clear than it was way back last year.\u00a0 They do certainly want some kind of money to &#8220;upgrade&#8221; but it seems poorly thought through.<\/p>\n<p>OAS came in various versions &#8211; Java, Standard, Standard One, Enterprise, and then the SOA Suite versions.\u00a0 The new BEA, now &#8220;Fusion Middleware 11g&#8221; comes in different versions as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WLS Standard<\/li>\n<li>WLS Enterprise &#8211; adds clustering, costs double<\/li>\n<li>WLS Suite &#8211; adds Coherence, Enterprise Manager, and JRockit realtime, costs quadruple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But they can&#8217;t tell us what OAS product maps to what FMW version.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an oddly stripped down &#8220;Basic&#8221; edition which noted as being a free upgrade from OAS SE but it strips out a lot of JMS and WS stuff; there&#8217;s an entire slide of stuff that gets stripped out and it&#8217;s hard to say if this would be feasible for us.<\/p>\n<p>As for SOA Suite, &#8220;We totally just don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Come on Oracle, you&#8217;ve had a year to get this put together.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty simple, there&#8217;s not all that many older and newer products.\u00a0 I suspect they&#8217;re being vague so they can feel out how much $$ they can get out of people for the upgrade.\u00a0 Hate to break it to you guys &#8211; 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