Looks like Larry’s pockets got a little too full again and some money fell out to buy another vendor.  Today Oracle announced they bought Sunopsis an ETL / Data Integration Provider with some very nice tools.  I love how Oracle already has a list of frequently asked questions when they just announced the purchase, that must be some of the predictive data mining tools working overtime right there ;).  In all honesty its a good move for Oracle, I’ll be more interested to see which pieces of the Sunopsis stack they are going to use in the tools.  Whether its the ETL integration / CDC to be put into OWB or the Data Integration into the Enterprise BI Suite (Siebel Analytics) or all of the above.  Either way I’m very happy to see that Oracle is again stepping out of their one database platform shoes and realizing that to be competitive they need to be able to interoperate with everything/everyone.

On a side note, for everyone thats been asking whether or not I’m going to be at Oracle World this year, the answer is no.  After 8 years Erin and I are getting married in Marathon Key, FL and I’ll be out on my honeymoon the week of the conference.  I tried to convince her that San Fran was a great place for the honeymoon, but as you can imagine that didn’t fly.  I’m not worried, I have a feeling that Collaborate in Vegas is going to be a heck of a lot more fun anyways.

PS- The side project is still being worked on I’m hoping to have some big updates in the near future.