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Hmm - Frank Hayes doesn't sound nearly skeptical enough about Oracle's migration plans:
Let's say Larry Ellison is right. Suppose Oracle does hold on to PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards users by finding a way to let them migrate gracefully to a best-of-all-worlds merged product that's now code-named Project Fusion and is supposed to be ready by 2008
How will Oracle do that? Nobody knows. It's never been done. Today, ERP migration is hard and painful. Making it easy will require a huge leap forward in migration technology.
But what if Oracle is serious about this and it really happens? Then things get interesting -- and not just for PeopleSoft users.
I think Hayes needs to run the oracle Installer a few times - that'll disabuse of him of the notion that Oracle can pull this off. I still have nightmares about the 8.1.5 installer - half the reason I haven't upgraded the OS on my Linux box recently is fear that I might have to upgrade Oracle - which takes me to this morning's confidence building installation of Oracle client libraries on my new laptop. 600 MB later (for the client?), I had the installation files. Partway through the install, Windows popped up a message telling me that system files had been modified with unrecognized versions... and the installer was the only thing that could have done that. Yeah, that made me confident.
I think it's time for PeopleSoft/JD Edwards users to start sweating - if for no other reason than that they'll have to face the Oracle installation tools...
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