Oracle Make Surprise Purchase of BEA Systems
Written by martyndavies on Jan 18, 2008 - 08:39 PM
Oracle are to buy BEA Systems for $8.5 billion. They describe the benefit of the deal as being about middleware:
but of course it's also about building a stronger telco product. Oracle have been operating in the OSS/BSS area for some years through partnerships as well as their own in-house products. It's only relatively recently, though, that their own SIP engine came to market. In the emerging IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks, SIP Application Servers (SIP AS) are the cornerstone of the whole telco, since SIP is not just a call control procedure, but actually is used for a lot of the controlling conversations to do with billing, roaming and value-added services.
BEA have been a thought leader in the area of IMS for a long time, being a key member of the Parlay group, which defines APIs that target this area of exposing telco services to applications. In particular, in the last few years Parlay has been focusing on web services, and how telco services can be integrated into a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA).
With both Oracle and BEA preaching from the SOA bible, this does look like a good match, and tackles any weakness that Oracle's critics might have seen in the telco product range.
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but of course it's also about building a stronger telco product. Oracle have been operating in the OSS/BSS area for some years through partnerships as well as their own in-house products. It's only relatively recently, though, that their own SIP engine came to market. In the emerging IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks, SIP Application Servers (SIP AS) are the cornerstone of the whole telco, since SIP is not just a call control procedure, but actually is used for a lot of the controlling conversations to do with billing, roaming and value-added services.
BEA have been a thought leader in the area of IMS for a long time, being a key member of the Parlay group, which defines APIs that target this area of exposing telco services to applications. In particular, in the last few years Parlay has been focusing on web services, and how telco services can be integrated into a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA).
With both Oracle and BEA preaching from the SOA bible, this does look like a good match, and tackles any weakness that Oracle's critics might have seen in the telco product range.
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