Oracle set to build out cloud service capabilities, rivalry with Salesforce.com

02.10.2012
Oracle is planning to broaden the footprint of its cloud software portfolio with seven new services covering developer team services, analytics, collaboration and other areas, Executive Vice President of Product Development Thomas Kurian announced Tuesday during the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.

Previously during OpenWorld, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced the to provide an IaaS (infrastructure as a service) that will compete with the likes of Amazon Web Services.

Coupled with Oracle's PaaS and cloud-based applications, "it's the broadest suite of software products available from any vendor through a cloud," Kurian said.

Oracle is also working on an application store through which partners can sell add-on products to customers, he said.

But the question is when all of it will become available.

Ellison provided no availability dates for the IaaS, and it's not clear how long Oracle engineers have been working on the effort.