Fusion applications decide an argument, sort of

With Oracle’s announcement of Fusion applications, you can make a reasonable case that Salesforce.com has won an important ten-year old argument about the future of the software industry.  Notwithstanding SAP, the only significant outlier left, Oracle is the last major software company to adopt on-demand computing as a centerpiece thus awarding legitimacy and critical mass [...]

Key Findings for OOW #3 — The Fusion Edition

Fusion is big, potentially powerful, based on new technology, backward compatible and not available yet. Larry Ellison began taking the wraps off Fusion at his Open World keynote on Wednesday.  His appearance on Sunday with Sun CEO Scott McNealy was just for poking some fun at IBM, this was the real deal.  Fusion is a [...]

Key Findings for OOW #2

This time a little more serious.  Ok? I am a software and CRM guy so that’s the focus of this piece.  Much of Oracle Open World (OOW) was table setting.  It was all interesting and valuable but it was also a lot of independent data points.  There was lots of cool CRM introduced for sure [...]

At Oracle Open World

Open World most resembles Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates in that there is such variety that you never know what to expect.  At any moment there is equal probability that you will be dazzled, challenged, delighted and perplexed. This being journalism, perplexity reins as a dominant topic and perhaps the most perplexing thing about the [...]

Following fastly

  Oracle continued its fast-following ways last week when it introduced additional functionality for Oracle On-Demand Release 16.  The statement completed a two part announcement begun the week before and brings to eight the number of new on-demand CRM applications from the company. The products announced last week include Oracle Self-Service E-Billing On Demand, Oracle [...]