Oracle is not down just yet. It seems that they managed to carve themselves out a pretty decent little niche after all…

PeopleSoft (Profile, Products, Articles) unveiled this week point releases for three of its major enterprise software suites, called Version 8.9. They are Enterprise Supplier Relationship Management, Enterprise Supply Chain Management, and Enterprise Financial Management.

Although Oracle’s (Profile, Products, Articles) Project Fusion will move all of its enterprise software from J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, and the Oracle e-business suite to a single code base, the PeopleSoft release of Version 8.9 does not reflect any substantive input from Oracle.

“It was underway pre-acquisition,” said John Webb, Oracle vice president for Supply Chain Application Product Strategy. “We will continue to look at 8.9 areas to build Web services on top to work with early Fusion products.”

If Oracle’s fingerprints are to be found on release 8.9 at all, it is in the area of supply chain management, according to Bob Parker, vice president of Research for Manufacturing Insights at IDC. [Read the rest]