Oracle today has announced
its acquisition of AmberPoint, a maker of SOA management software.
AmberPoint's SOA Management System solution is focused on resolving issues in
application performance and transaction monitoring. The financial terms of the
agreement were not disclosed, and the transaction is expected to close during
the first half of this year, according to Oracle.
AmberPoint has partnerships with HP, Microsoft, Parasoft, SAP and TIBCO. Oracle will continue to support multiple platforms "even if the relationship
ends," and it will support OEM agreements going forward, the company said
in a conference call with the press.
"My guess is that Oracle will terminate many of these relationships,"
said Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director for Burton Group.
AmberPoint, which is the "clear leader" in the SOA management market,
is an "excellent acquisition" for Oracle, she added.
"I view SOA management as the most useful piece of SOA infrastructure an
organization can buy, yet very few organizations have bought one," Manes
said.
"The big vendors have universally promoted ESB as the foundation of a SOA
infrastructure, and they've traditionally played down SOA management. I have
the opposite perspective; SOA management should be the foundation of the
infrastructure, and ESBs are less important."
Oracle intends to integrate data from AmberPoint’s governance runtime into its
Fusion middleware products, including Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle SOA
Governance and Oracle SOA Suite, the company said.
"We expect the addition of AmberPoint's products to Oracle Fusion
Middleware SOA Suite will provide stronger end-to-end governance that allows
customers to manage the entire life cycle of SOA-based solutions, providing
visibility and management across heterogeneous environments," said Thomas
Kurian, Oracle executive vice president of product development.
"I doubt that Oracle will start to downplay ESBs, but I expect they will
start to aggressively promote SOA management," Manes said.
By David
Worthington
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