While business decisions continue t...

While business decisions continue to be made around the pro and fix in the minds of enterprise application suites v best-of-breed applications, the importance of these signs of decisions increases regularly. chiefly recently, while the Microsoft-SAP merger didn't happen, it appears at pres time that an Oracle acquisition of Peoplesoft has gathered steam.

On the two sides of the equation, for existing Oracle or existing Peoplesoft application users, investments have been made in core applications. Add-on module for additional line-of-business or corporate functionality may now have additional associated risks. Questions arise, including: Which vendors' application module will survive? Is there