SOA filling the Gaps

In a previous post I presented the opinion that Oracle 's Sun acquisition is questionable, mainly because of Sun's hardware products. The new Golden Gate proposed acquisition looks like a logical, straight forward acquisition. Golden Gate is a leader in Real Time heterogeneous database integration and therefore compliments Oracle's Fusion Middleware and database solutions. The product supports most of the Relational Databases in the market: Microsoft SQL Server , Oracle, Sybase , DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, HP NonStop and SQL/MX, Enscribe ,(hierarchical database) Ingres and MySQL . Golden Gate 's product enables Transactional integration. Version 9.5 (released in 2007) supports integration of non-data entities such as Stored Procedures and users definitions. It also supports Packaged Applications including Oracle—E-Business Suite , PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel , JD Edwards and SAP . The company is Oracle's partner for ten years. Few additional not...