Oracle, for its part, is discussing options on BPEL4People with IBM and customers to try to gauge the benefits of options for deploying the technology.

Customer feedback on BPEL 2.0 has been positive, Khodabakchian said. As part of its finalization process, BPEL 2.0 would be submitted to a public review and subjected to an OASIS adoption vote about a month later.

Members of the OASIS WSBPEL Technical Committee have been conducting weekly meetings to refine the specification. OASIS gained jurisdiction over BPEL in 2003. Approximately 50 companies are participating in developing BPEL 2.0.