Questioning Oracle's Cloud

Forbes.com (Jul 7 2009) Monitoring , Cloud Computing

1. Will the company need to clean up its applications to change the face of cloud computing? When Larry Ellison announced last month that Oracle was going to embrace cloud computing, he put forth ideas that expand on the current models. With the Sun acquisition and the rest of its formidable portfolio, Oracle has all the pieces of the puzzle to do something revolutionary. The key question: Will Oracle have to clean up its fragmented collection of applications to achieve its vision? From my perspective, the answer is yes. Even Oracle cannot afford to "cloudify" each part of its application portfolio. The first thing to realize is that Ellison's statements were only hints at a strategy. (Read Full Article)

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