History of Oracle integration products

Oracle introduced several products in the late 1990s/early 2000s to address the needs of application and process integration. None of these products caught on in the industry. The early products were database-centric, and SOA industry standards which were still evolving were not web services friendly. It was not until the release of the Oracle Enterprise Service Bus in 2005 did Oracle begin to make inroads into the application and process integration space.

Given the long list of Oracle application and process integration products that have come and gone, Oracle customers have a right to question whether the current offerings will be around in three to five years. The number one reason that customers should not be concerned is that Oracle is building its entire Oracle Fusion Middleware Application software stack on these technologies. Some other reasons that the current set of products have longevity are:

• Market leading products that were acquired...