So what is FUSION exactly ... well it's exactly what you want it to be !!!

When you're looking into Oracle 11g, what's coming up, you will notice one thing very clearly ... FUSION. SCA, Webcenter, Jdeveloper, OWB, ODI, BPM Suite, Oracle Service Bus, ... it's all becoming 1 user experience.

If we take a look at the Oracle Fusion Approach, you will have the same user experience in each environment you working in.

The IDE's are converging, the management console's are converging, ... in other words the developer experience, dba experience, management experience, etl experience ... every person, every team will work in the same UI, having the same experiences and in other words can team up with all different teams and projects.

It's amazing when looking at OWB 11g release ... it's ODI put in a Jdeveloper UI, it's like you're working inside Jdeveloper not on a web application, soa architecture, database application ... no your designing your datawarehouse.

AIA patterns can be used in BPA Suite, BPM Suite will hold all the features of BPMN to deliver a BPEL Blueprint which can be enriched in your Bpel designer. Bpel designer can be used in Jdeveloper or Eclipse, as well as the ESB Designer. Having the Jdeveloper experience and talking about data integration aspects and ETL, well no problem open up OWB 11g and have the same developer experience. The IDE looks the same, works in the same manner as Jdeveloper as well for OWB as for ODI, all suites converge ... were do you have that experience now?

Moving towards 11g you will have the converge of BEA and Oracle to have a stronger middleware, an enhanced governance-approach (using AL Enterprise repository) and a whole new feature set coming up in SCA.

So now the million dollar question ... when can we use all this great stuff ;o)