Oracle has unveiled a strategy for its acquisition of BEA,
which will see the company integrate
BEA Tuxedo transaction processing engine and
WebLogic application server into its
Fusion middleware platform.
Oracle Fusion Middleware senior vice-president
Thomas Kurian said: "Oracle and BEA have many common middleware
customers who have asked us to bring the products together. We are
trying to do this.
"For the majority of products, BEA and Oracle are complimentary.
Where there is no overlap, we'll bring together the BEA products
into the Fusion product [family]."
For BEA customers that run applications which perform the
functions of existing Oracle products, Kurian said businesses would
be able to continue running their existing BEA software, which he
said would allow users to integrate and share information with
Oracle's own products.
Oracle has gained WebLogic, the market-leading web application
server and the Tuxedo transaction processing engine through its
acquisition of BEA. Kurian said: "We will take Tuxedo, broaden the
number of operating systems [it supports] and integrate it with our
database RAC [real application cluster technology] and Oracle's
SOA."
He said WebLogic will become Oracle's strategic Java application
server. "We are certifying all our products on the new version, BEA
WebLogic 10.3, and we will integrate it with Oracle's application
server, object relational mapping technology, web services
stack."
Oracle President Charles Philips, said: "The addition of BEA
products to the Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite will accelerate
innovation in our product offerings, and help our customers
strategically implement middleware to more easily build, deploy,
and manage applications in a secure environment."