Oracle To Update App Server With Business Activity Monitoring

Looks like Oracle wants to enter the BAM space:

CRN : Daily Archives : Oracle To Update App Server With Business Activity Monitoring : 2:53 PM EST Thurs., May 13, 2004: "The BAM data feeds into a central management console, where it can be correlated, filtered and subjected to analytics, according to Oracle. The results can be viewed on a portal dashboard. "

According to the article, the BAM capabilities include support for BPEL, which is coming out the winner in the standards wars for the "Process Execution" slice of the alphabet soup of the SOA. Oracle has not settled on a standard itself however, announcing it will support both BPEL (initially proposed by MS and IBM) and WS-Choreagraphy. Thank goodness for both of them, for as the article says, "Oracle's move brings clarity to the respective focus of each group."