The Fate of ALI

General by matt on June 21st, 2008 2 Comments

Now that Oracle’s running the AquaLogic show, they wasted no time killing the $300 million AquaLogic brand, “reshuffling the BEA deck“, and removing the onerous BEA license key process.

So what does this mean for the future of the Plumtree/AquaLogic product line?  Will it survive the reshuffle?  What’s Oracle’s road map for future development?  Well, those answers will come on a July 1 conference call for customers and partners: “BEA Welcome and Middleware Strategy Briefing” – definitely worth checking out, and if you can’t, stay tuned here for a synopsis.

I did come across one clue about the fate of the product line: Oracle is actively hiring for BPM and Portal consultants in Chicago, Dallas, and Columbus (actually, nationwide with 100% travel requirements): “aqualogic bpm albpm / fuego; aqualogic portal alui / plumtree Consultants”.  Funny, they mention “Previous BEA employees are encouraged to apply.” Hmmmm…

2 Responses to “The Fate of ALI”

  1. Dmitry Bryazgin says:
    June 23, 2008 at 10:44 AM

    Thank you for this clue Matt, because I have almost lost my hope about ALUI, anyway will see July, 1.

  2. Matt Chiste says:
    June 23, 2008 at 11:44 PM

    So I can’t go into detail here, but for all you ALUI and ALBPM fans out there, the news on July 1 is going to be (mostly) good! Core functionality and the primary product line will live on, ancillary products will live on or have solid, defined migration paths.
    Rest easy and keep developing those AquaLogic (or whatever they’re gonna be called) portals/worksflows :)!

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