Fresh Air over Oracle Fusion Middleware

There is a lot of confusion over what Oracle Fusion Middleware is and what it comprises of. Google it and a few Oracle websites come up that are targeted for the CEOs and the CTOs which makes less sense for  technical folks. Here are some helpful podcasts Fusion Podcast1, Fusion Podcast2

  To keep it simple, my interpretation is that Oracle Fusion Middleware is a collection of technologies that are based on SOA technology platform that help the Customer develop, integrate, manage and monitor applications.

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

The Oracle Fusion Middleware11g is a fusion of technologies between Oracle and BEA products. I am listing the primary technologies that form the crux of this middleware and am also listing the origin of the technology which can help in understanding better. The SOA products of BEA were once called AcquaLogic Service Bus, etc.

• Application Server from BEA which is called Oracle Weblogic Server. The Oracle Application Server based on oc4j does not seem to have found a place here.
• Content Server from Oracle
• Identity Manager from Oracle
• Business Intelligence from Oracle
• Transaction Processing from BEA which is Tuxedo
• SOA Suite
• BPEL Process Manager from BEA
• Enterprise Service Bus from BEA
• BAM from Oracle
• Web Services Manager from Oracle
• Business Rules from Oracle

Oracle Fusion Applications
It is the re implementation of Oracle's EBusiness Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft and JDEdwards Enterprise as a single application.