One of the outstanding issues to arise from Oracle's announced buyout of rival CRM vendor Siebel Systems Inc. is what will happen to the latter's OnDemand offering. These hosted applications run off an IBM database platform, and there have been fears that Oracle is likely to switch to its own database.

Rottler said that for the user, the infrastructure platform for OnDemand is irrelevant. Customers would still get the same hosted service.