Event Report: Oracle Open World Day 1- The Word On The Street Report
Day 1 Brings 40,000 Oracle Faithful Into San Francisco For Red Stack Indoctrination
(Source: R Wang & Software Insider POV, Copyright © 2009 All rights reserved.)
Interesting tidbits from Day 1 include:
- Oracle tells SaaS providers they can use a new SaaS/Cloud computing model to purchase a limited number of Oracle products in a “pay as you grow” manner.
- Attendees propagating rumors about Fusion Apps being announced on Wednesday in Larry’s keynote.
- Customers discussing how Oracle now leads CRM sales with CRM OnDemand before any other on-premise product.
- Dell confirmed to be selling SalesForce.com products in the SMB channel.
- EBS customers who have upgraded to 12.1 still having a tough time getting the new account and multi-org structures down right. Many system integrators suggest that its best to do a reimplementation.
- PeopleSoft customers buzzing about the new 9.1 release.
- Oracle waiting for Sun deal to close to make next set of acquisition. Charles Phillips tells partners, there’s more to buy.
- The roving Rimini Street billboard is back!
Your POV.
We’ll be roving around asking some questions during Open World. If you get a chance, let us know:
- Which Oracle products do you use?
- What release of Oracle DB are you on? When will you migrate?
- Are you using Oracle BI Tools with non-Oracle data? or vice versa?
- Do you use RAC? Do you use RAC? Do you know about Exadata and would you consider it?
- When will you consider Fusion Apps?
- Is the delay in Fusion Apps, affecting your timing for software upgrades?
- Are recent maintenance price hikes having an impact?
- When do you plan to adopt Fusion Middleware?
- How much will Fusion cost you in reimplementations?
Feel free to post your comments here or send me an email at rwang0 at gmail dot com or r at softwareinsider dot org.
Copyright © 2009 R Wang. All rights reserved.
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Absolutely struck with the guidance and lack of accountability from Oracle at OOW to customers.
Oracle has punted on integration as a delivered product:IF you consider the definition of integration to be ’supplied as a buyable product and supported by the vendor.’
Oracle’s definition seems to be integration the same way that Facebook and YouTube are integrated-at the surface only and then ‘pushing’ or ‘publishing’ from one island to another.
If you took notice during Safra and Charles keynote, the screens all said ‘Peoplesoft Fusion Edition’-leaking out the go-forward strategy. Isn’t it incredible that fusion is nothing more than webcenter (all-new UI) plus analytics (all-new BI stack running from the middle instead of inside a packaged product) plus AIA pack (new license to create objects outside the app) plus SOA suite/ADF (new toolset to manually assemble workflows and BPM outside the app)?
Fusion is the ability to multiply the complexity and the number of license and maintenance streams to Oracle. It guarantees lock-in and removes the possibility of consolidation.
Just put this massive custom-built one-off multi-app mess on a single Exedata Sun/Oracle only box and hide it all into a literal ‘closet’ as if your business leaders won’t notice the lack of true process integrity, auditing, and financial transparency. It is an act of deception that breaks every promise of the word ’suite’.
Keep it all, pay for it all, and write one big check to Larry. What a great strategy-if you are an Oracle shareholder.
‘Fusion’ was supposed to be ONE FUSED PRODUCT. Instead Fusion is 3000 products and ‘wallpapered’ Webcenter/Analytics/Middleware in a big box to hide the fact that nothing has fundamentally changed and Oracle diverted billions from support-funded product innovation to 59 (and counting) acquisitions providing new maintenance streams.
Fusion is best defined as the number of maintenance streams Larry can fuse into his bank account. Customers should know better by now.
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