So just what makes Fusion unique? If you take a fundamental look at any application solution today with Oracle or SAP, what the vendor delivers to the marketplace is based on a combination of things. There are things you can play with and things nobody gets to touch. PeopleSoft had stuff not accessible, Siebel had code and engine routines that neither customers or channel partners could touch. We had Oracle Forms, and SAP has ABAP [proprietary source code]. All had proprietary technologies that made it difficult to make changes in the system.

We're delivering the first standards-based, commercially available applications all written in Java and XML. If you believe in the concept of component-based architecture, the fundamental premise is adaptability. If you don't like Oracle billing, take it out -- and with clearly defined connection points, replace it with something else I build or [something] another vendor built. The overall business flow is uninterrupted.