How will Wookey’s departure affect Fusion Applications?
Because Wookey headed up the Fusion Application team, we believe that his departure will have some effect on delivery dates for specific offerings. The question, however, is how much of an effect. On the one hand, we have received assurances from Oracle management that Fusion Applications will not be delayed. Oracle points to the fact that Kurian, who is now in charge of both Fusion Middleware and Applications, has been the chief architect for Fusion from its inception. On the other hand, it is hard to imagine that Wookey’s loss — not to mention the division of Kurian’s time between middleware and applications — will have no impact whatsoever. From where we sit, we still expect that some Fusion Applications will ship in 2008 as Oracle has promised for more than two years. However, it is likely that Oracle will push out at least some of its internal deadlines behind the scenes. Since Oracle has never made specific commitments about what Fusion Applications it will deliver and when it wi
