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Is Oracle Really Offering 100+ Cloud Applications?

Posted by Soulskill on from the for-sufficiently-small-values-of-100 dept.

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."

4 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. Well, let's see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  2. Since when is the number of applications... by MrBandersnatch · · Score: 2

    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?

  3. People soft by nurb432 · · Score: 2

    Just call each module an app, and call it 'cloud ready'. There is your 100.

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  4. The Actual List by sadyoshi · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?