In announcing preliminary results, CEO Ed McVaney said JD Edwards has recovered better than expected and was reporting earnings above expectations. In January JD Edwards reported a net loss of $4.4m on revenue of $218m, six per cent down on the...
Software integrator JD Edwards has ditched its partnership with Siebel Systems on the grounds of incompatibility, accepting an offer from CRM software manufacturer YOUcentric instead. Under the deal JD Edwards will acquire 100 per cent of privately...
Separately, Phillips said that in September current customers of JD Edwards and PeopleSoft applications will have the option to purchase Oracle's Fusion Middleware with upgrades. Oracle will gradually reorganise itself around specific industries...
While it hasn't made a call on databases yet, Oracle did announce on Monday that it plans to enable its Project Fusion products to run on IBM's WebSphere middleware, which allows disparate applications to talk to each other.
Among the tasks Oracle checked off in 2005 were defining the Fusion architecture, certifying numerous products on Fusion middleware, defining new product requirements, enhancing support and building upgrade tools, executives said.
Apart from whether there will be another an acquisition, or confirming rumours that Oracle will offer its own Linux distribution, perhaps the most pressing question for Oracle's top brass is the status of its Fusion Middleware.