Bashing SAP, Oracle and Other 'Stackers' | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog

As usual: Bruce cuts right to the chase:

The real reason for Jim to be cranky about the Stackers is that they do have a stack — an SOA stack — that BPM rides on top of. The pureplay BPM vendors — our former term for the non-Stackers — don't, and as BPM moves to the enterprise, customers increasingly want one. The non-Stackers say, we have a UDDI browser, just layer our BPM on top of any SOA stack. But that is apparently a hard sell.

Bashing SAP, Oracle and Other 'Stackers' | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog