When conversations on Enterprise 2.0 turn to vendors, most of the time you will hear a list of small vendors (e.g., Atlassian, Connectbeam, Jive, Socialtext, Telligent, etc) as well as traditional collaboration and content platform players (e.g., IBM, Microsoft) and some potential new entrants (perhaps Cisco or Google). Rarely does Oracle come up in those conversations. That will change in 2009 - in part because Oracle's E2.0 portfolio is becoming more cohesive - but also because economic conditions will likely persuade many organizations that sticking with large platform vendors is a safer bet.
The article below provides insight to how Oracle views E2.0 from a philosophical perspective (there is no mention of products). Billy Cripe is the director of product management, Enterprise 2.0 and ECM, at Oracle. Vince Casarez is vice president of product mangement, Enterprise 2.0 and WebCenter at Oracle.
My thoughts on the article:
The article is fairly consistent with the E2.0 tenets proposed my Andrew McAfee:
“Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software pla
"When conversations on Enterprise 2.0 turn to vendors, most of the time you will hear a list of small vendors (e.g., Atlassian, Connectbeam, Jive, Socialtext, Telligent, etc) as well as traditional collaboration and content platform players (e.g., IBM, Microsoft) and some potential new entrants (perhaps Cisco or Google). Rarely does Oracle come up in those conversations."