Introduction

This page is intended for sharing 'unbiased' and objective information about the Oracle Fusion Middleware offering related to EAI/EAB/SOA, e.g. Oracle SOA Suite or Oracle Integration Suite.

Is serves as a placeholder for comparision between e.g. IBM Websphere, Tibco, Sun JCAPS (incorporating SeeBeyond), Progress SONIC (Actional) etc.

Having an overview of weaknesses and strengths a selection process or material for motivation for a decision can be of help.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Fusion_Middleware#References.

List of analyst reports

Various	200x	An Oracle Corp page that lists analyst reports for Infrastructure, scroll down to FusionMiddleware. Very interesting list. Expect the list to be mostly positive reports re. Oracle's offering. (There may be overlap with some of the reports mentioned below.) Use this search in Google to search within the reports that are hosted on oracle.com and add your own search term, e.g. SONIC. (Not all reports are hosted by oracle.com, e.g. Gartner's)
Forrester	Q3 2007	Wave: Application Server Platforms(reprint by MicroSoft) Reworked to Oracle Is A Leader In Application Server Platforms
Forrester	Oct 2007	Embedded SOA Management Solutions
AMR Research	May 2007	SOA and BPM for Enterprise Applications: A Dose of Reality
Gartner	Oct 2007	Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2007
Forrester	Q4 2007	The Forrester Wave™: Standalone SOA And Web Services Management Solutions
Forrester	Q2 2006	The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus
Gartner		“Oracle Fusion Middleware: On the Road to Service-Oriented Architecture (and Beyond)

List of Oracle Corp presentations

Oracle SOA Strategy	2007	Bug in Wiki-link editor: go to http://www.bci-italia.com/attisoftech07%5COracle%20&%20SOA.ppt.pdf