ESB Vs Interconnect

Hi Guru's
I have a customer who is looking at integrating their EBS and Custom ERP. We have proposed them the integration with SOA Suite. Now they have comeback to us telling they have interconnect which has come along as a part of EBS and are planning to do the integration using interconnect.
Iam new to interconnect and I dont have the + & -- of interconnect when compared to our ESB & BPEL. Can someone help me out with this?
Urgent Please
R K

Hi,
Well basically InterConnect is the predecessor of the ESB component of SOA Suite. I have worked with InterConnect on several projects in the past and i think the most important differences compared to ESB are:
- No support for webservices
- Instabillity of the development environment (iStudio)
- problems tracing runtime problems and runtime management of the environment
But besides that, i think the biggest issue is with the end-of-life date. If you use InterConnect 9.0.4 it is already desupported and version 10.1.2 will follow shortly, see [http://www.oracle.com/support/library/brochure/lifetime-support-technology.pdf]. I think that any new project setting up integration should use SOA Suite and no longer start with InterConnect.
Regards,
Andre

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