It was not a surprise when, in spring 2007, enterprise applications
provider Infor launched Open SOA, an initiative to retrofit the
company’s ERP and other applications with a new services-oriented
architecture-style middleware layer.
Infor’s most direct competitors had already taken similar steps to
expand into SOA-flavored middleware. Oracle was beefing up its Fusion
Middleware product line and would eventually acquire competitor BEA
Systems. And SAP had launched NetWeaver, its collection of middleware
products intended to help bring a services-oriented architecture to the
company’s applications.
