Saturday, November 5, 2011

Oracle defends its cloud, tears into Salesforce.com

Oracle defends its cloud, tears into Salesforce.com:






Last month’s unveiling of the Oracle Public Cloud garnered a bit of skepticism: CEO Larry Ellison claimed full support for industry standards, but analysts questioned whether it would truly be interoperable with competing clouds as Oracle insisted.



Most of the Oracle Public Cloud’s components are still unreleased, but Ars spoke with Product Marketing Vice President Robert Shimp to address questions about application portability across clouds, why Oracle chose a multi-instance architecture instead of a multitenant one, and pricing. Here's the short version on money: Oracle says pricing will be simplified and published publicly, but hasn’t revealed numbers yet. Shimp also offered some choice words for rival Salesforce.com, saying Oracle will offer greater flexibility.



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