Ellison hawks Oracle's cloud stack, calls out Salesforce.com

03.10.2012
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a vigorous sales pitch on Tuesday for his company's next-generation Fusion Applications and underlying technology platform, saying they constitute a more modern approach to cloud-based software than offerings from rivals like Salesforce.com.

While Ellison didn't provide much news during his talk at OpenWorld in San Francisco, his remarks served to crystallize Oracle's market message for SaaS (software as a service), PaaS (platform as a service) and IaaS (infrastructure as a service).

Ellison began with a boastful claim to Oracle's place in industry.

"Oracle has more SaaS applications than any other vendor," covering sales, human resources, ERP (enterprise resource planning) and more, he said. "Everything you need, top to bottom, to run your enterprise in the cloud."

He noted that "every time you acquire a SaaS application you also acquire the underlying technology."

He went on to describe Oracle's platform, which includes Oracle's database, application server, OS, servers and storage. "It all comes together. It all has to be there for the cloud to work."