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When Larry Ellison announced last month that Oracle was going to embrace cloud computing, he put forth ideas that expand on the current models. With the Sun acquisition and the rest of its formidable portfolio, Oracle has all the pieces of the puzzle to do something revolutionary. The key question: Will Oracle have to clean up its fragmented collection of applications to achieve its vision?
From my perspective, the answer is yes.
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Many of us have had to ponder this question. Technology selection is notoriously difficult in the enterprise space since the criteria and complexity of the problem is often not fully understood until later in the development process.
There is an interesting post from ThoughtWorker Erik Dörnenburg with the unfortunate title “Making the ESB pain Visible”. Erik provides a real-world example of when not to use an ESB citing that:"Based on conversations with the project sponsors I began to suspect that at least the introduction of the ESB was a case of RDD, ie. Resume-Driven Development, development in which key choices are made with only one question in mind: how good does it look on my CV? "