The city of Orlando runs EnterpriseOne financials on the iSeries.

Fred Pond, a past Quest president, also wants to see IBM support maintained.

If Fusion is to be the best of PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards and Oracle software, then Oracle has to provide multiple infrastructure choices, he said.

However, Pond, director of information services at Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. in Portland, Ore., said that as the development of Fusion continues, some users fear that instead of a compilation of multiple technologies, it will look "more like an upgrade of the [Oracle] E-Business suite." Schnitzer uses EnterpriseOne.

"We would like to see [Fusion] operate on the iSeries platform and with the DB2 database," said Bubba Tyler, CIO at Conshohocken, Pa.-based Quaker Chemical Corp., an EnterpriseOne shop.