Foreword

The software industry is an exciting field to be working in, but in many ways it leads a contradictory existence. On the one hand, innovation drives us; the bright young things and vendors continually push the boundaries, coming up with new ideas and standards. On the other hand, rapid churn does not sit well with the needs of the CTOs and CFOs of this world for whom long-term planning is the focus, and stability and supportability are the watchwords.

So the reality is that most of the IT world, Oracle customers included, exists in a state of punctuated equilibrium, ponderously hanging on to their existing technology for as long as humanly possible, with only small pockets of cutting-edge adoption and innovation, before finally switching ...

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