Wednesday keynote was for the major part about Oracle applications direction. Steve Miranda talked about Oracle having entire stack – hardware and software, and the fact that Oracle software will run better and will be optimized for Oracle / Sun hardware.
The biggest news was introduction of Oracle Public Cloud by CEO Larry Ellison. Although not similar to traditional cloud software platforms like Salesforce.com or Workday, Ellison emphasized that the differences are the key advantages of the Oracle Cloud platform:
- Oracle Cloud consists on Oracle Fusion Applications that utilize industry standard technologies : SOA, Architecture, security built into middleware, Database , OS
- Modern user interface with actionable news, Analytics, BI
- Ability to run Fusion Apps – on premise, hosted or in the cloud
Larry Ellison spoke about the lengthy 6 year journey to Fusion apps and the reasons behind
- Approximately 100 Fusion modules are in GA (Generally Available) now
- Oracle Fusion Applications utilize industry standards on all application layers – Java, Oracle Database and Weblogic. This allows Fusion applications to be easily migrated from On-premise to Hosted or Cloud solutions.
- The vision has changed from what it was 6 years ago – Facebook, Twitter have inflluenced the way people work. Hence, Oracle has added Oracle Social Network for Enterprise, which is also integrate into Fusion apps.
Last years heavyweights continued the sparring match about “Clouds”. This time around Larry Ellison first cancelled Marc Benioff’s scheduled keynote, that generate quite a media frenzy and he also added a slide about the “false clouds”.
A picture is worth a 1000 words so here are some of the slides that I found notable:
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