blog We knew the National Australia Bank was keen on software from US technology giant Oracle, but until now we didn’t know just how keen. But a stellar article on the bank’s infrastructure strategy by CIO has exposed this, courtesy of some leaked information and a great deal of research. We recommend you click through and read both pages (the first, the second and the third) as there’s a great deal of info here about NAB’s IT infrastructure.
“… there are the Oracle clustered databases (11g RAC) and Oracle business intelligence … And, at a higher level, shared WebLogic installations provide application PaaS. The higher-level software is a mixture of software Oracle now owns following its acquisition of BEA and Sun, including Tuxedo and JRockit. NAB is also deploying a number of Oracle banking applications in the Flexcube suite … A Web front-end portal sits along side the Oracle identity and risk management solutions.”
Wow. Sounds like Oracle Australia MD Ian White must be pretty happy with NAB. Our only question is: What happens if Oracle decides to raise prices, or lock its customers into a restrictive proprietary standard? But Oracle would never do that. Right? Right?
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Sounds like a monoculture … I prefer a little biodiversity in my IT. This won’t have me rushing off to nab to open an account anytime soon :) (whereas their “break up” campaign might have)
I had a credit card with NAB a few years back and liked the service I got … but I always knew they were a little too evil as a corporation ;)
If I was Oracle I would be hoping that people didn’t associate my company name with NAB’s technology right now!
Hehe yeah NAB’s recent problems appear to have resurfaced …
NAB and Oracle .. that is a match made in hell.
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