Oracle buys HotSip

Via GigaOm, HotSip has been acquired by Oracle. Being an Oracle ERP Consultant, have been mulling over how web2.0 affects companies like Oracle and SAP which have been working in the ERP/CRM space. SalesForce seemed to be the only one getting it and is leveraging some of the new technologies in its on-demand CRM offering. VOIP one would think would go well with a host of CRM modules , Oracle Collabsuite etc, allowing for customer callback leveraging VOIP. This is one acquisition, that really made me glad, since Oracle is not oblivious to the changes that are taking place in other areas in internet technologies.

Hotsip provides a service creation environment (SCE) for the M2CE SIP and J2EE application server with access to APIs that makes it easy and fast and with a low risk to develop new or customize exiting applications. The powerful SIP Servlet API provides the developers with complete access to the SIP protocol stack in order to facilitate development of value added services for SIP based communication platforms. SIP Servlet combines SIP features with access to the entire J2EE 1.4 environment

HotSip currently features a application server based on JBoss. So if Oracle manages to grab JBoss as per the rumors, there would be less rework and easier integration of HotSip with Oracle applications tech stack.

Update: Jeremy tries to make sense out of all the open source acquisitions.

Tags: Oracle, JBoss, Open Source, HotSip, VOIP, CRM, ERP