Ellison Claims He’s Over His Cloud Phobia

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, a purportedly reformed cloud loather beguiled, he claimed, by the charisma of the cloud brand, may reportedly do his very first tweet come June 6 when Oracle floats all its enterprise applications out on the Oracle Cloud.
The event will put it 10 years ahead of SAP, he claimed Wednesday at the star-studded D: All Things Digital conference in California.
“For the first time you’re going to have a complete ERP and complete CRM suite on the cloud,” he said.
The difference between Oracle and other SaaS players will apparently be that Oracle’s cloud-ified apps won’t be multi-tenant. Instead Oracle means to give its clients their own virtual machine and Amazon-like specification control, preserving them from being upgraded at the convenience of the merchant.

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