Oracle Unhappy With Forrester Research
March 9, 2013
Forrester Research made a suggestion that Oracle’s customers will not be interested in upgrading to the new Fusion Applications after the long, expensive development process. Computer World hashes out the debate in, “Oracle Blasts Forrester Report On Fusion Applications Adoption.” Forrester claims that Oracle faces a strategic dilemma, because it makes a lot of money from its older product lines and not many clients have adopted Fusion. Oracle defended itself by saying its clients do not have to choose between Oracle Applications Unlimited and Fusion Applications. Oracle has taken a co-existence approach, where the old can be used alongside the new.
Still, why fix what’s not broke?
“’In a sense, Oracle’s Applications Unlimited policy has been too successful,’ said analyst Frank Scavo, president of IT consulting firm Strativa. ‘The majority of Oracle’s existing customers are so satisfied with their current systems that they do not see a driving need to upgrade to Fusion.’”
Another problem is trying to get people to change their enterprise applications. People do not want to upgrade even if the vendor stops providing support. Oracle created too good of a product. A showdown is going to come down between the old and the new, brother fighting brother…er…software fighting software.
Whitney Grace, March 09, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
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