HP and Oracle have entered into the next phase of their joint activities to help enterprises align IT resources and investments with business strategies. HP is planning to incorporate Oracle Fusion Middleware into the HP Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) portfolioin order to offer customers more agile software that helps automate business processes. SOA is an architectural approach to building software applications as a collection of autonomous, re-usable business services.
"Companies can preserve legacy systems by using them as business assets without the requirement for replacement or business-crippling developing lifecycles," said Uday Kumaraswami, vice president, enterprise application services practice, HP Services. "With these HP and Oracle offerings, companies can develop new business capabilities at a lower cost and capitalise on the need to respond to change."
