March 6, 2018:
"Oracle US is assisting Norwood on the integration of Norwood’s Corona APIs into Oracle’s Open Banking API ecosystem and frameworks to allow Oracle’s financial services clients to integrate Norwood’s Corona services into their IT systems. The defined onboarding activity is actively underway, and Norwood is working to complete the exercise within the coming weeks."
So yes, you are correct. Oracle is simply helping NOR merge the two API's. Thousands of coders every day integrate API's without help, but then NORs coders were 18 months behind schedule for Wifi and Secure, and haven't been able to port World Wifi from Swift (iOS coding language) to Java (android coding language) in the last 3 months... Well, they must need the help.
Most interesting to me is the section I made bold. That announcement was 7 weeks ago. Within the coming weeks would usually imply 3-5 at most. One more week (therefore two months) and "Norwood is working to complete the exercise within the coming months" or "Norwood is working to complete the exercise within the next few months" would be more appropriate. Almost seems misleading to say "coming weeks" when NOR clearly has no intention of sticking to these deadlines.
Still waiting on World Phone 3.0 for Android. Ignore the fact Wifi for Android isn't out (Wifi for iOS was DOA anyway, doesn't even rank), focus on WP 3.0. Norwood mentions in the WP 3.0 announcement for iOS that:
"World Phone Version 3.0 represents a major advance for the highly-acclaimed and award-winning World Phone platform, addressing key enterprise requirements and adding important network resiliency capabilities, including features such as enterprise-grade encryption and state-of-the-art voice compression and decompression (codec) software"
Seems WP 3.0 contains a lot of features 2.0 didn't that are key for enterprises. So without a WP 3.0 for Android, it is laughable to imagine a 40,000 employee bank (with at least 50% on Android phones) signing up to Corona.
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