Oracle’s Fusion Progress and secrecy August 4, 2008
Posted by Duncan in Fusion, Oracle, PeopleSoft.trackback
There’s a good summary post on Oracle and how they’re far more secretive about their products than PeopleSoft ever used to be. The post deals with Fusion, but I think that the same point applies to many products, including PeopleSoft applications and Tools releases. Even tools patches have very vague release dates.
When I posted a year or so ago that I’d heard Jesper Andersen say that the Fusion Applications suite wouldn’t GA until 2009 there was a fair bit of feedback (to put it politely – I even had to edit one comment for profanity), but now it seems more likely that Jesper was correct.
How much we read into this Gartner report is up to our own faith in Oracle, but statements like
‘Oracle plans to only sell Fusion to new customers and that “migrating the installed base to Fusion is no longer a near-term goal”.’
and
‘the 2008 Fusion applications will not include any core ERP products’
don’t fill me with confidence that we’ll see clients implementing Fusion any time soon.
It’s great news though for anyone hoping that the PeopleSoft product line remains around for a long time.
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