Oracle plans to unveil a developer's preview of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3, which will wrap a conglomeration of Oracle Fusion middleware products into a single install for the first time. Already available in beta, the developer offering is deemed fully functional by Oracle and serves as a preview to the general release due this fall.

Oracle SOA Suite provides a one-stop shopping approach to SOA, said David Shaffer, senior director of product management at Oracle. The company believes that an ESB is only part of the SOA equation; customers also need capabilities such as identity management, process composition, BPM, and even business intelligence and grid-style infrastructure management. "We think [the suite is] the right package in terms of mapping to people's real-world requirements," Shaffer said.

The general release of Oracle SOA Suite is priced at $50,000 per CPU when used with Oracle's application server, and $65,000 per CPU for use with other application servers.

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