Right after acquisition of PeopleSoft in 2005, Oracle never looked back from the acquisition stream, which can be depicted from the following details:
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Product Group |
Product Name/Company (Month and Year of Acquisition) |
|---|---|
|
Database |
* DataScaler (October 2010) * e-Test (acquired from Empirix) (March 2008) * Innobase (October 2005) * Moniforce (December 2007) * mValent (February 2009) * Secerno (May 2010) * Sleepycat (February 2006) * TimesTen (June 2005) * TripleHop (June 2005) |
|
Middleware |
* AmberPoint (February 2010) * BEA (January 2008) * Bharosa (July 2007) * Bridgestream (September 2007) * Captovation (January 2008) * ClearApp (September 2008) * Context Media (July 2005) * HyperRoll (September 2009) * GoldenGate (July 2009) * Java (April 2009) * Oblix (March 2005) * OctetString (November 2005) * Passlogix (October 2010) * Sigma Dynamics (August 2006) * Stellent (November 2006) * Sunopsis (October 2006) * Tacit Software (November 2008) * Tangosol (March 2007) * Thor Technologies (November 2005) |
|
Applications |
* AppForge (April 2007) * Haley (October 2008) * Interlace Systems (October 2007) * LogicalApps (October 2007) * Market2Lead (May 2010) * Silver Creek Systems (January 2010) * TempoSoft * Agile (May 2007) * ATG (November 2010) (pending) * Hyperion (March 2007) * PeopleSoft (January 2005) * Primavera (October 2008) * Siebel (January 2006) * Telephony@Work (June 2006) |
|
Server and Storage |
* Sun (April 2009) * Virtual Iron (May 2009) |
|
Industry Solutions |
Communications and Media * Convergin (February 2010) * eServGlobal's Universal Service Platform (USP) (May 2010) * HotSip (February 2006) * MetaSolv Software (October 2006) * Net4Call (April 2006) * Netsure Telecom Limited (September 2007) * Portal Software (April 2006) * Sophoi (October 2009) Engineering and Construction * Primavera (October 2008) Financial Services * i-flex (August 2005) Health Sciences * Phase Forward (April 2010) * Relsys (March 2009) Industrial Manufacturing * Agile (May 2007) * Conformia Software (June 2009) * Demantra (June 2006) * G-Log (September 2005) Insurance * AdminServer (May 2008) * Skywire Software (June 2008) Retail Retail * 360Commerce (January 2006) * Advanced Visual Technology (AVT) (October 2008) * ProfitLogic (July 2005) * Retek (April 2005) Utilities Utilities * LODESTAR (April 2007) * SPL WorldGroup (November 2006) |
With all of this acquisition, Oracle SOA Suite is gaining the importance for integrating the applications for completing business process-oriented fusion applications. Oracle SOA Suite will continue to evolve as the products are acquired by Oracle and as customers tend to use them in a standalone middleware context.