SOA filling the Gaps

Probably not. Java is too strong to be killed. I posted the following answer to the question: Will Oracle's lawsuit Against Google Put a Chill on Java Adoption?  asked in ebizQ SOA Forum When Oracle acquired Sun, I thought it was a wrong decision (read my post: Vendors Survival:The Sun is red - Oracle to buy Sun First Take   ). It seems that Oracle's managers reached a similar  conclusion and are trying to minimize the amount of money they lose. The lawsuit against Google is one  of the ways to achieve it. However, this lawsuit  supports the concerns about Java after Oracle  acquired Sun. The delicate balance of the Java community with two  strong players (IBM and BEA), Sun as the owner of  Java and leader of the Java Community Process and  other strong players (Oracle, SAP, RedHat/Jboss etc.)  no longer exists. Oracle swallowed BEA and Sun and is now the owner  of Java. Java w...

Unlike the other three leading Eco Systems vendors Microsoft , Oracle and SAP , IBM is not a player in the applications market. Its absence from this market is based on strategy which does not include ERP , CRM and other applications as one of its target markets. So why is I BM going to acquire a small CRM vendor named Unica?     In order to answer this question I am going to describe the first time the name Unica was mentioned to me. It was a strategic CRM consulting project I was participating in. The large customer was using Siebel . I joined a CRM expert with vast knowledge and experience of the customer's  implementation as well as other CRM projects. My role was to analyze the CRM market and its trends focusing on implications relevant to that client. I choose to focus on Siebel and the other three market leaders of that time: SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft and two other unique products which may supplement them (Unica and Kana ). Two days before we gave the cli...