Server virtualization is fine for discrete workloads controlled by IT but application owners are much more cautious. This is especially true when it comes to applications that depend upon multiple horizontal and vertical tiers. Middleware is particularly dicey since it anchors all application-to-application communications. Oracle can align its portfolio of business applications, development tools, and middleware with tight integration for server virtualization. Oracle hasn’t got all of these pieces but it appears to me that it has more of them than others than others.”]