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Is Oracle Really Offering 100+ Cloud Applications?
Nerval's Lobster writes "Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claimed during a June 6 presentation that the upcoming Oracle Cloud would offer more than 100 enterprise-grade applications. While Oracle certainly intends on offering a broad range of cloud products, at least one analyst has questioned how the company is counting up to that magic '100 applications' total. Meanwhile, another analyst feels that, despite Oracle's commanding presence in enterprise IT, it could face a significant challenge in its fight for the cloud-computing market."
Given what Oracle charges for apps, availability in the cloud might only benefit existing customers. Even MS 360 is pricey to the point only value added users can justify it.
JJ
There's MySQL, MySQL+, MySQL Max, MySQL 386, MySQL Lite, MySQL with Bacon, MySQL with jalapeno, Eventum, MySQL with antioxidants, did I say MySQL already?
99 cloud applications from Oracle, 99 cloud applications. ..... (for X=X-1 cloud applications while X>-1)
Take one down and pass it around, 98 cloud applications from Oracle.
No more cloud applications from Oracle, no cloud applications.
Go to the store and buy some more, 99 cloud applications from Oracle.
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By the way, I hate Oracle. I don't like any large software firm for that matter, but Oracle is especially nauseating.
You can't handle the truth.
By my count, they have 102, but I think the East German judge and the French judge scored them lower
Maybe they are counting other companies apps that rely on things such as Fusion Middleware since every time one of those is sold, Oracle also ends up getting paid for another license for the middleware.
a metric useful in judging the viability of a cloud offering? Personally I want to know about things such as ease of use, integration into 3rd party offerings, scalability, pricing etc. *sigh*
Useless PR aimed at boosting the share price a few points, how did this ever make the front page?
Just call each module an app, and call it 'cloud ready'. There is your 100.
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TFA links to the actual list that Oracle claims, why isn't this in the summary so that people can judge for themselves:
http://constellationrg.com/blog/2012/06/oracles-list-100-plus-cloud-applications
I don't see why this is news though. Marketing department chooses a convenient level of granularity to get a shiny number. Isn't that like, all marketing?
Oracle can bite it....
They long ago took over the "Most Evil Empire" title and broke my prediction that CA would graduate to that role.
Come on, only 40 of them are cloud enabled calculators.
The rest are distributed between flashlight apps, cloud enabled fart apps, and cloud enabled dice rolling apps.
It is too easy to make up nearly any number one like, by dividing the functionalities into different applications.
BTW, Oracle E-Business Suite (i.e., Oracle Apps) alone has over 100 'applications' according to Oracle's classification.
I guess we expect different applications instead of variations of applications when Or acle makes a call like that.
nosig today
...made outlandish claims. Like the time they made pretty much the entire Linux community spit-take its Mt. Dew when it claimed it had made an "unbreakable" Linux.
Larry Ellison is a bloviating billionaire who makes crappy software that he is very good at selling (ergo, he's a billionaire). Otherwise, I wouldn't buy much of what he has to say.
My company uses "Oracle HR" for time recording and goals tracking. It turns out Oracle's quality standard for "enterprise grade" isn't all that high...
Don't doubt... but its not the quantity, its the quality, and so far Oracles quality is... um... lacking. Ellison is all about compensating for... something... this is a step in that direction.