Oracle now says the Fusion project is halfway to completion, and will be serving  as "the driving force behind next generation Oracle Applications." Oracle completed certification of Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards Applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g Release 2, thus seeming to fulfill its earlier promises that software acquired in two large and controversial acquisitions in recent history would present a unified face to all customers.

Yet the company also maintains that "an ongoing commitment to open standards is central to Oracle's vision and product strategy for Oracle Fusion Middleware." To wit, it listed its support of multiple projects, including:

* Leader and contributor in over 50 new specifications for the JCP, OASIS, WS-I, W3C, Liberty, OMG and several other standard bodies
* Co-specification lead for the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 specification
* Lead for the EJB 3.0 Object-Relational Mapping project in the Eclipse Foundation
* Lead for the JavaServer Faces (JSF) Tooling project in the Eclipse Foundation
* Co-lead for the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) tooling project in the Eclipse Foundation
* Core contributor to Apache MyFaces
* Co-authored the Service Component Architecture and Service Data Object specifications for SOA development
* Board member and vice president of the Liberty Alliance, chair of the Liberty Conformance Expert Group, active participant in the Public Policy Expert, Business and Market, Technology and Strong Authentication Expert Groups

Oracle Fusion Middleware is now used by more 28,500 customers, Oracle says, with 35 of the world's largest 50 companies and 750 of the Business Week Global 1000 having joined the party.