SAN FRANCISCO – Oracle executives showed a demo of the long-awaited and long-delayed Oracle Fusion Applications during the company’s last keynote on Wednesday.
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Steve Miranda, Oracle’s vice president of application development, went through a demo scenario with Oracle Fusion Applications. It was similar to the exclusive Fusion Application demos that SearchOracle.com got at the beginning of this week.
As for when that next generation will arrive, end users will have to wait a little longer. Ellison said the Oracle Fusion Applications suite wouldn’t be generally available until the first quarter of next year.
“We believe that if you engineer the hardware and software pieces to work together, you get a much better system,” he said. But he didn’t address the flipside, which is lock-in with a vendor like Oracle.
Kenneth Timque, assistant vice president of dataset engineering at New York Life, said he enjoyed Ellison’s keynote. He missed Ellison’s talk on Sunday, and so he didn’t care that Wednesday was something of a repeat performance.
He added that New York Life will “definitely take a look” at the integrated hardware and software that comes with Exadata and Exalogic, though the company has no immediate plans to buy anything.