{"id":8073,"date":"2013-07-05T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/jul\/05\/oracle-and-salesforce-partnership-offers-less-than-meets-the-eye\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T15:30:00","slug":"oracle-and-salesforce-partnership-offers-less-than-meets-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/oracle-and-salesforce-partnership-offers-less-than-meets-the-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle and Salesforce partnership offers less than meets the eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Carter Lusher, Research Fellow &amp; Chief Analyst: Enterprise Applications Ecosystem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On June 25, 2013, Oracle and Salesforce.com sent out press releases about how they had agreed to a strategic partnership to integrate their Salesforce.com and Oracle clouds. The press release was followed up on June 27 with a press conference held by both CEOs. The announcement generated a considerable amount of press and blogosphere buzz, with the general tone being that it is game-changing.<\/p>\n<p>However, nothing in the announcement amounted to a significant change in either company&rsquo;s strategy. Instead, what was offered was only just above &ldquo;press release-ware&rdquo; level, because no proof points were provided. In addition, the cross-vendor application integrations, Salesforce&rsquo;s commitment to Oracle technology such as Database 12c, and internal usage of each other&rsquo;s applications, are not unique or surprising. <\/p>\n<p>It is Ovum&rsquo;s opinion that this announcement neither shifts the dynamics of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carter Lusher, Research Fellow &amp; Chief Analyst: Enterprise Applications Ecosystem<br \/>\nOn June 25, 2013, Oracle and Salesforce.com sent out press releases about how they had agreed to a strategic partnership to integrate their Salesforce.com and Oracle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}