Salesforce.com also recently announced a .

The Messaging Cloud, meanwhile, will allow applications residing on Oracle's cloud or elsewhere to communicate.

It remains to be seen whether Oracle rolls out the new services in a single batch, or delivers them in a more incremental manner.

Kurian did say that within a week or so, customers interested in the PaaS' database and Java services could sign up for a free 30-day trial, signaling that those previously announced components have reached a certain level of stability.

Apart from sheer breadth, Kurian stressed the Oracle cloud's capabilities for security and system control. For one, customers' data is kept in isolation from others, he said. "Every [customer] has a private schema, a private tablespace, so your data is not commingled with others."