The Stakes are High in the Positioning of the next SOA Platform of choice.

The stakes are very high for SAP and Oracle as they both roll out their respective SOA Platforms over the next 5 to 10 years.  This means their will be a lot a retoric around the marketing machines as they positon to be the leader in the purveyor of services.

Here is SAP latest Press Release regarding what

"WALLDORF, Germany, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- "Larry Ellison'sstatements in today's Oracle earnings press release about SAP's product and acquisition strategy are a complete misrepresentation," said Bill Wohl, vice president of product and solutions public relations, SAP. "Since January of 2003, SAP has consistently articulated and delivered on its vision for enterprise SOA following a course of organic growth combined with strategic acquisitions. SAP offers customers market-leading, enterprise SOA applications today while Oracle's next-generation applications exist only in PowerPoint and won't be delivered until 2008 or beyond. mySAP ERP 2005 gives customers and partners a world-class ERP platform with planned, regular functionality enhancements without the need for major upgrades through 2010, and has been shipping to customers since June of 2006. By contrast, Oracle's statements about SAP and their own Fusion progress continue to be inconsistent and misleading. In January, Oracle claimed they were halfway to Fusion and two weeks ago they said they were not even halfway done -- Oracle needs to adopt one version of the truth, and be honest with the market on its actual progress."

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