| How will Oracle’s acquisition of PeopleSoft affect your Enterprise? |
| Written by Cale D. Hollingsworth | |
| Wednesday, 01 June 2005 | |
 Unless you have been stuck in a cave without a good WiFi signal, you know about Oracle and PeopleSoft's long courtship and eventual merger. However, do you know how this will affect your Enterprise? One of the key components to making good IT decisions is Interoperability. If your systems can't communicate, what hope do you have to communicate properly with your users, clients and vendors? When making choices regarding hardware and software, how much consideration do you give to your new system working with something that seems totally disparate today, but may be integral to business in the future? The concept of tying corporate accounts receivable data into the corporate website was barely considered in 1995. How about 2000? How about now? Bought anything on-line lately? How about Inventory? Daily status reports? The list is truly endless. Oracle’s acquisition of PeopleSoft now creates a bilateral mix with SAP in the Enterprise ERP market. This will probably be good for the customer, because competition usually equals innovation. However, how will this affect the rest of us? How about small or medium businesses with smaller budgets? What about Open Source? With so many active projects now available to choose from, there is no valid excuse to discount Open Source alternatives. Is your IT Department ready? Source: CIO Magazine (Jun 1, 2005 Issue) |