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Oracle Calms Fusion Fears

Miro Newsletter Volume #32

May 5 , 2006

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in this issue

-- Oracle Calms Fusion Fears

-- Purchasing Oracle Software Through Resellers

-- Oh, Canada!

-- Other Upcoming Miro Speaking Engagements

-- NJBIZ Selects Miro to Their 2005 Fifty (50) Fastest Growing Companies List

-- About Miro Consulting

-- Miro's Guide to Smarter Oracle Software Licensing; It's Free for the Asking

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Oracle Calms Fusion Fears

(adapted from eweek.com, May 1, 2006)

Relieving the very real forced-migration fears of its acquired customer base—particularly People-Soft and JD Edwards software users—Oracle announced April 25 it will continue to develop its individual lines of software indefinitely. More important, Oracle has said it will add substantive upgrades beyond the release of Fusion, its next-generation suite of applications, due about 2008.

Charles Phillips, co-president of Oracle, outlined the Applications Unlimited program that provides ongoing development and dedicated development teams for the Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JDE and Siebel applications.

"We're committed to additional features," said Phillips. "The concept is [to deliver] the next release, but it's unlimited. It goes on in parallel [to Fusion]. It's different train tracks. You can ride on the one you want and jump on the next track when you're ready. It's all going together in parallel. All we're doing is adding another track with Fusion. You can jump on when you want to."

With the Applications Unlimited announcement, Phillips said Oracle is also providing more "visibility" into product road maps—critical functionality information the company has been short on to date. It's also boning up on customer support, an area where Oracle once garnered a notorious reputation but is striving to change moving forward.

The Applications Unlimited announcement represents a huge step forward for Oracle. When Oracle last year initially unveiled its vision for Fusion Applications—a superset of applications that would combine the best of capabilities from Oracle, PeopleSoft and JDE—it said it would support the suites until 2013.

Purchasing Oracle Software Through Resellers

Oracle is selling more licenses through resellers. A fairly recent Gartner study concluded that “experience from vendors such as Microsoft shows that it takes more than five years to educate resellers with enough licensing knowledge to enable them to accurately articulate the correct licensing model to buyers.” So while we’re not saying resellers don’t know what they’re talking about, we are saying that it’s unlikely that Oracle’s resellers fully understand all the nuances, and especially so when dealing with legacy licensing models.

At the proverbial ‘end of the day’, the buyer is responsible for ensuring that what they purchased from the reseller (or directly from Oracle) is correct. If the reseller makes a mistake in its advice, the buyer’s on the hook, not the reseller.

Oh, Canada!

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Miro will be speaking to Canadian groups in Winnipeg and Toronto during June, as follows:

June 6, 2006 Scott Rosenberg to address the PeopleSoft Western RUG Conference & Trade Show to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Website: http://www.wcrug.ca/

June 27, 2006 Scott Rosenberg to address the Eastern Canada Regional User Group (ECRUG) and Southern Ontario Oracle Applications User Group (SO-OAUG) User Group Conference to be held in Toronto, Ontario. Website: http://www.ecrug.com/

Other Upcoming Miro Speaking Engagements

June 23, 2006 Miro’s CIO, Ken Saloway, to address the New Jersey Oracle Applications User Group (NJOAUG) meeting to be held in Somerset, NJ. Website: http://www.njoaug.org/

October 18-20, 2006 Scott Rosenberg to address the IAITAM 2006 Annual Conference & Exhibition to be held in Cleveland, OH. Website: http://www.iaitam.org/

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NJBIZ Selects Miro to Their 2005 Fifty (50) Fastest Growing Companies List

Miro Consulting was recognized and honored at NJBIZ's annual awards banquet held at The Palace at Somerset Park, Somerset, NJ on October 11, 2005. NJBIZ chose Miro Consulting #36 on their prestigious list of fifty.

For more about NJBIZ, please visit their web site at www.njbiz.com.

About Miro Consulting

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Miro Consulting specializes in helping clients negotiate Oracle and Microsoft licensing contracts for its 200+ clients located primarily throughout North America. Founded in September 2000, Miro Consulting is based in Fords, New Jersey. For more on Miro Consulting, please visit the company’s website at www.miroconsulting.com.

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