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Things I wish from Oracle in 2010 (1): WebCenter Standard Edition

Jan 10th 2010vesterliOracle ADF & Oracle Portal & Oracle WebCenter

The first thing I wish for in 2010 is a WebCenter standard edition product at a reasonable price.

Currently, WebCenter is available as WebCenter Suite - which is a massive bundle with everything, and a corresponding massive price tag ($125,000 per CPU). There is also a WebCenter Services license, but at $80,000 per CPU for just content management, secure search and a couple of Oracle-branded open source products, this is even more overpriced.

What I wish for is “standard edition” product containing the core WebCenter product, the JSF Portlet bridge, OmniPortlet/WebClipping and the open source parts (Wiki/Blog and Discussions). This product does not need to include WebCenter Spaces, WebCenter Composer, Universal Content Management, Secure Enterprise Search, Presence etc.

This product should provide a way forward for the many existing Oracle Portal customers who are currently defecting to SharePoint in droves, as well as promoting ADF Faces at the way to write portlets.

If you agree, please vote for this idea on Oracle Mix - and feel free to comment below or to sten@vesterli.com.

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