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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:38:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Company laims it is ahead of plan to build a new set of enterprise applications based on the best functionality and concepts of its home-grown and acquired software, but acknowledges it still hasn't built a convincing business case to drive customer upgrades. |
SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle Corp. is ahead of its announced three-year schedule to develop and roll out a new set of enterprise applications that will tap the functionality of the company's various home-grown and acquired application suites, Co-President Charles Phillips said yesterday. In a meeting with customers, analysts, and press on the anniversary of the company's initial strategy roadmap announcement following its acquisition of PeopleSoft, Phillips declared that Oracle is now halfway to its goal of creating a services-oriented, standards-based successor set of enterprise applications. Phillips, however, stopped short of announcing a new deadline -- the company originally announced a 2008 date -- for delivering the new applications, initially dubbed Project Fusion. The initiative will now be called Fusion Applications, Phillips said. In response to questions from Managing Automation, Phillips said Oracle has considered accelerating the public deadline for delivering Fusion Applications, "But I don't want to put additional pressure" on developers, Phillips said. [Click to continue] |
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