The vendor plans to issue a number of additional updates to the first wave of Fusion software in the run-up to its OpenWorld conference later this year, according to a slide Leone briefly displayed on a presentation screen. It also expects to have made some 1,000 customer-driven enhancements by OpenWorld, according to the slide.

Leone declined to say how many more licensed Fusion Applications customers Oracle expects to have by the event.

However, this year could see more Oracle users in general take a serious look at buying into Fusion, simply due to timing, said Mark Clark, president of the Oracle Applications Users Group, one of the organizations putting on the Collaborate show.

Oracle had run a restricted early adopter program for Fusion Applications, and by the time the software became generally available, many other customers were "well into their budgeting for 2012," Clark said in an interview. "So this year, I think you'll see a lot of people look at and perhaps budget for a [Fusion] project next year."

Overall, customers should start "as small as possible" with Fusion Applications, Gonzalez said during his talk.