[Today’s run: 3.x miles, coming off a hard weekend]
I ordered up this book last week about Oracle WebLogic.
I am the administrator for an installation of various Oracle pieces including their “middleware” Oracle Application Server. (Middleware is software that aggregates information from one or more source and then presents that info, usually using a web browser.)
When the next version comes into my realm I’ll have to be ready to shift from OAS to this new WebLogic thing. Oracle had OAS, but they saw that a WebLogic, owned by BEA was a better product (I guess) and they bought BEA and threw out their own OAS and put WebLogic in it’s place.
So, I need to read up on WebLogic, maybe do some playing around with it. I may even try to get the office to spring for some real Oracle training. That happens sometimes.
3 replies on “Oracle WebLogic”
Oracle’s omniscience (BEA “better product”) is also their omnipresence. When I first moved to the Bay Area, Peoplesoft was a going concern and my company used PS for a lot of their stuff. Then Oracle bought PS (hostile) and no longer supported the PS we were using so we had to migrate to a “better product.” (They also bought out Sun.) I am left wondering how big is too big… if concerns for market dominance are subordinate to having a healthy player in the anemic global economy?
Side note: After our next corporate upgrade in user hardware/software, we are moving from desk- and laptops to (casually stated) wifi terminals and virtual servers – or so I hear. (We already have virtual servers.) This reminds me of the computer-terminal days decade ago, albeit without wires. We will have gone full circle.
I agree with you about Oracle, they are too big as far as I’m concerned. When they got into the hardware business that kind of put me over the top.
I think they follow the Microsoft model of buying the competition mainly to put them out of business. Makes it hard on the customers.
Full circle: Yes. I don’t think it is our first time around that circle. The same plate of cookies keeps coming around with more layers of frosting.
Microsoft, yes. I still have it in for them after they bought and killed FoxPro. It was a nice tool for non-technical analysts who wanted a bit more than MS Access… (Justice: MS lost out on Zune and I hope they lose a bundle on Surface, too.)