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Oracle intros its own public cloud

Paul Furber
By Paul Furber, ITWeb contributor
San Francisco, 07 Oct 2011

Oracle has unveiled its own public cloud services, the culmination of six years of porting work, said CEO Larry Ellison, at Oracle OpenWorld, in San Francisco.

The Fusion Application Suite, over 100 separate products, now runs in the cloud and on premise. Ellison said that the Oracle cloud was a little different from traditional cloud services.

“At the lowest level, it's platform as a service (PaaS) and applications as a service and the key difference is the platform is based on industry standards. We support full interoperability with other clouds and your existing data centre.”

Oracle says the Oracle Public Cloud is a subscription-based, self-service access to Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database, and will be managed, hosted and supported by Oracle.

Services include: Fusion Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Cloud Service, Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network, Oracle Java Cloud Service and Oracle Database Cloud Service.

“It took a little longer than we planned to rebuild all the different pieces into the cloud,” said Ellison.

“It was a gigantic project - over 100 separate products that needed to be rewritten on top of modern technology. We felt we had to move to the next generation of technology, because we needed applications that ran not just on premise, but in the cloud. Also, we needed to move our core products to industry standard technologies.”

Ellison took swipes at other cloud providers, Salesforce.com in particular, who he said didn't use industry standard technologies. “Beware of false clouds. Salesforce is like the roach motel - you can check in but you can't check out.”

Pricing for the Oracle Public Cloud will be based on a monthly subscription model, and each service can be purchased independently of other services. There are also a number of common services, including resource management and isolation, security, data exchange and integration, virus scanning, white list management, and centralised self-service monitoring.

Oracle have included a database Cloud Service that provides access to database schemas, application development tools, data loading services, Web Services APIs, and a set of packaged business productivity applications.

There's also a Java Cloud Service that lets customers develop and deploy Java EE applications based on Oracle WebLogic Server into the cloud.

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