Oracle launched the latest generation of their collaboration suite called beehive. While I know it takes a while for mergers to bear fruit, I was disappointed to see no mention of BEA’s Enterprise Social Computing concept and related products or even its own WebCenter tool .
Back when it was announced in May, Gartner administered what by its standards is a
savage beating with the damning comment:
“After two unsuccessful forays into the collaboration market, Oracle is back with the next generation of Oracle Collaboration Suite. Gartner believes Beehive is unlikely to be any more successful than past efforts.”
Looking at the description of the product, I was even more surprised to read that Oracle Collaboration includes
"a complete range of collaboration services including conferencing, instant messaging, email, calendar, and team workspaces"
It sounds a little like the set of collaboration services you would have expected 5 to 10 years ago. Where is the support for the modern Web2.0 collaboration technologies: Wikis, RSS et al. Many banks are starting to experiment with Web2.0 and I think Oracle is missing a trick by not recognizing this change - particularly as Oracle already owns Web2.0 technology from its BEA acquisition and WebCenter which it could inject into Collaboration.
Ronan
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