Efforts to consolidate the number of vendors or to provide middleware platforms that consolidate these systems will be important components of risk projects for the next few years.
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A lot of those standards are in middleware. The next generation of applications will be a lot more middleware dependent, so you have to start there.
Increased attention to infrastructure middleware and applications and analytics are crucial steps toward increased RFID adoption. Just solving the physical issues alone will not create the RFID tipping point.
Look. We will give you the servers. We will give you the DRM. We will give you the middleware within the box. And we'll make sure that all of those work effectively together.
Most companies fail to realize the high cost and amount of disruption switching to a new wireless e-mail solution would entail. Companies must weigh the risks in staying put, versus the substantial costs in making a move to another wireless middleware platform.
The Blue Peach NAS Media Server is an important third-party product for Accelerated Technology and underscores our commitment to the consumer electronics marketplace. The combination of these world-class software components creates the perfect multimedia match for a broad range of client devices. The Nucleus software has always had very strong market presence in embedded consumer applications and our customers can now benefit from even more functionality to help reduce their development time. We see this offering as only the beginning of a full line of consumer electronics applications and middleware for our company.
Every potential client that we've talked to regarding voice is asking for a direct interface now, and because of the demand, vendors have been very active in pursuing them with the major and Tier-2 WMS suppliers. Middleware has been characterized as an extra step in the process. There is a much cleaner installation with the direct interface.
One of the challenges in the past was that the WMS would have to send big batches of orders to the middleware. The middleware then assigns the tasks to the voice system, and reports back to the WMS about five minutes later.
I am a strong believer in building communities in and around games to really improve the gaming experience ... and Terraplay is in a strong position to become the leading company that is best at servicing the games industry with middleware solutions for connected gaming.
Whereas IBM decided many years ago that they would not be in the application business, ... They're taking their middleware so that it evolves and becomes wrappers for packaged software that is becoming componentized. Then it almost doesn't matter who the primary packaged application is because if you put the enterprise wrapper around it, then you sort of control the game.
We are optimistic about becoming number one in the middleware business,
For years, the database has been an extremely vigorous competition between DB2 and Oracle database. The heat has gotten more intense because middleware has been added to the mix.
We are clearly not No. 1 in middleware. You will see us do a number of things in that space, including acquisitions.
We had solid performance in systems, middleware and business transformation services, which grew over 25 percent for the year. Our cash position remains very strong, and we saw impressive growth in important parts of our business. We continued to make gains in emerging markets and in important sectors such as healthcare and transportation, and our microprocessors are powering the fast-growing home entertainment market.
Even more critical to Oracle's future, however, was Phillips's announcement of Oracle Fusion Architecture (OFA), the company's massive SOA, combining the flexibility of model-driven process design and service- and event-enabled applications with ease of integration from its open, standards-based, hot-pluggable platform, and the scalability inherent in Oracle's grid computing architecture. In 1925 business consultant Frederick Taylor said, 'Business processes are work processes tucked away in manuals.' The same thing is true today, but with applications instead of manuals, ... The Oracle Fusion Architecture is a unifying model of emerging trends in grid computing architecture, service-oriented architecture, and enterprise information architecture. It gives customers and partners a good view of the direction that Oracle is taking to make the most of our core strengths in database, middleware, and business applications.
We have defined Oracle Fusion architecture, certified all Oracle applications on our world-class Oracle Fusion middleware, which includes a set of mature tools that are being used to develop the Oracle Fusion applications.