A few days back I got the invitation from Oracle to attend an online webinar of how to migrate from Oracle Application Server to Oracle Weblogic Server. I saw this as a pretty decent opportunity to learn something about Weblogic. My expectation was to have detailed understanding of how these two products differ from each other and in the process get my hands on Weblogic which I haven't been able to do so. I have a good architectural and practical knowledge of Oracle iAs 10g and its easy to understand a product if you know how its counterpart product works so I was more excited towards this than usual. But...
The webinar started with the usual marketing crap and a couple of slides were wasted to that and after that I was told that yes you are here to know about migration considerations from Oracle iAS 10g to Oracle Weblogic. The next three to four slides were as I expected. The overview of basic difference between the two products and how it was such a genious move on Oracle's part to acquire BEA's weblogic. You get easily confuse of what they were trying to say. They were praising their acquisition at the same time they were also saying how good a product Oracle iAS 10g was. Why there was a need to buy Weblogic when your existing product was beating everybody else to the punch. None the less I tried to stay focus and wait for the actual stuff. Like I said I was expecting all this. What came after this was shocking.
The migration process suddenly halted and they began to explain how good is Weblogic. The next 40 minutes were dedicated to Weblogic Server's praise and how it is beating everyone else in the market especially IBM's websphere. Next they moved onto Weblogic 12C. I had no idea before this webinar that it is a must have for everyone and how it is tightly integrated to Oracle EM 12C (Oh, if you don't have EM 12C - for your information it is a must have also). In short they were the 60 minutes of my life that I can't get back.
Weblogic is one hell of a product and we all know since the days when Oracle's own iAS was a competitor of it. I used to wish to use Weblogic with Oracle Database as easily as Oracle iAS. Because quite frankly Oracle iAs was one crappy product. Its hard for me to say it like that because I had so many sleepless nights understanding this huge product. Weblogic is small and simple but still does it all what iAS used to do (except to run Froms and Reports Server which are slowly getting obsolete) and this is where its actual beauty lye's. But I don't know this gem as well as I should have; may be I had to have some more sleepless nights for Weblogic as well. But I am sure in those nights I won't be listening to another Webinar.
The webinar started with the usual marketing crap and a couple of slides were wasted to that and after that I was told that yes you are here to know about migration considerations from Oracle iAS 10g to Oracle Weblogic. The next three to four slides were as I expected. The overview of basic difference between the two products and how it was such a genious move on Oracle's part to acquire BEA's weblogic. You get easily confuse of what they were trying to say. They were praising their acquisition at the same time they were also saying how good a product Oracle iAS 10g was. Why there was a need to buy Weblogic when your existing product was beating everybody else to the punch. None the less I tried to stay focus and wait for the actual stuff. Like I said I was expecting all this. What came after this was shocking.
The migration process suddenly halted and they began to explain how good is Weblogic. The next 40 minutes were dedicated to Weblogic Server's praise and how it is beating everyone else in the market especially IBM's websphere. Next they moved onto Weblogic 12C. I had no idea before this webinar that it is a must have for everyone and how it is tightly integrated to Oracle EM 12C (Oh, if you don't have EM 12C - for your information it is a must have also). In short they were the 60 minutes of my life that I can't get back.
Weblogic is one hell of a product and we all know since the days when Oracle's own iAS was a competitor of it. I used to wish to use Weblogic with Oracle Database as easily as Oracle iAS. Because quite frankly Oracle iAs was one crappy product. Its hard for me to say it like that because I had so many sleepless nights understanding this huge product. Weblogic is small and simple but still does it all what iAS used to do (except to run Froms and Reports Server which are slowly getting obsolete) and this is where its actual beauty lye's. But I don't know this gem as well as I should have; may be I had to have some more sleepless nights for Weblogic as well. But I am sure in those nights I won't be listening to another Webinar.
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