As an attendant to the latest LOUD meeting, during the speeches we were confronted with 2 opposing statements. The first speaker stated we should go back to the roots of application development using the rich technology databases nowadays possess, like PL/SQL and triggers. The second speech was about the new development tool from Oracle, WebCenter and Web 2.0 which has all functionality in the application instead of the database.
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For quite a time Oracle is focusing on Application Integration in combination with Web 2.0 concepts. With the release of the Webcenter Suite, Oracle tries to increase the productivity of employees within a company. Not only by combining functionality from different applications but also by offering some basic Web 2.0 essentials like wiki’s, blogs, social communities and instant messaging. Oracle’s Webcenter will therefore places itself to be an important part of the Fusion Middleware productline.