Oracle Fusion Architecture is a technology reference architecture or blueprint from Oracle Corporation for building applications. Oracle Fusion Applications is built on top of the Oracle Fusion Middleware technology stack using Oracle's Fusion Architecture as blueprint. Oracle Fusion Architecture is not a product, and can be used without licensing it from Oracle. Details Oracle Fusion Architecture provides an open architecture ecosystem, which is service- and event-enabled. Many enterprises use this open, pluggable architecture ecosystem to write Oracle Fusion Applications, or even third-party applications on top of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle Fusion Architecture is based on the following core principles: Model Driven: For applications, business processes and business information Service & Event- enabled: For extensible, modular, flexible applications and processes Information Centric: For complete and consistent, actionable, real-time intelligence Grid-Ready: Must be scalable, available, secure, manageable on low-cost hardware Standards-based: Must be open, pluggable in a heterogeneous environment Oracle Fusion Applications that can be written on Oracle Fusion Middleware using the Oracle Fusion Architecture ecosystem, were released in September, 2010. See also Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Fusion Applications Interface (computing) Enterprise service bus Fusion CRM References External links Oracle Fusion website Fusion Service-oriented architecture-related products