User: Snowy.White

Re:How much does this suck for Novell???

On: Oracle to Offer RedHat Support?

I have seen this before while working for Oracle Support on the long forgotten CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) suite. This was initially hailed as the best of breed apps under the Oracle umbrella. Support for third party apps extended to logging the calls and passing directly to the relevant third party software support. However, after a year or two, Larry said how bad the idea was since Oracle is lumped with supporting all these apps for the third parties. And what actually happened to those third party apps (and/or companies)???
Here's the list:
- System Ess - Oracle has written a replacement module called Oracle OM (Order Management) with the same functionality,
- GEMMS - Oracle bought the comapnay (repackaged the software as OPM - Oracle Process Manufacturing),
- Empac - a replacement written as EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) having the same functionality,
- Manugistics - left intact (probably because it was the most stable system in the whole suite),

there were other companies that had a software package that Oracle did not have or was superior to Oracle's and they were swollowed up, eg. Peoplesoft (inc JDEdwards) and some smaller security companies.

Judging by the past record, Oracle's next move is not hard to predict...