Over the last couple of months there has been a lot of work done by the teams at Oracle to make sure we have a solid foundation and core integration between all the products in Oracle's Enterprise 2.0 stable of products and more importantly around Oracle's Portal Solutions.
Clearly, there will be some challenges with communicating this information out as broadly as possible. And our direct competitors just love to twist our words to make customers believe that their current products are going away.
Let me start here. Oracle has clearly stated that Oracle Portal, Oracle WebLogic Portal, and Oracle WebCenter Interaction & Collaboration (formerly ALUI) will continue to be developed and supported for at the MINIMUM of 9 years. This means that there will be both major and minor releases of these products going forward. And when we get close to this 9 year time horizon, as we do for every product, we'll survey the customers and extend the time if that's their recommendation. At Oracle, we have a strong track record with doing that with other products ranging for Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle RdB, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle Siebel, and the list goes on. While the original acquisition of these products, by all accounts from our competitors, signaled the end of these products, they have lead a strong and prosperous roadmap with no end in sight.
To be clear, we have dedicated development teams for each of the products in our Enterprise 2.0 family. Their charter is to make sure their product clearly continues to surpass the competition in all ways possible. Some of these leading edge features and capabilities will be shared services that will work across all products. I'll detail this information for you over the coming blog posts. And this is what is so worrisome to our competitors. Oracle and BEA no longer have parallel teams competing against each other, but we have a larger pool of clear development leaders working together to push the competition further behind.
We do have concrete plans for releases for each of these products coming out in the next few months and we'll detail these plans at the upcoming OpenWorld show starting on September 21st. Rest assured that if you can't attend OpenWorld, we'll make sure to post the content on http://webcenter.oracle.com. In addition, we have feature, coexistence and integration plans for additional releases that we'll share as much as we are legally allowed.
I'd encourage any existing customers that have been given an interpretation of our strategy from our competitors to contact me directly or my team and we are more than willing to show you the error in their ways. I'm at vince.casarez@oracle.com.
