Oracle Fusion Middleware. Larry Ellison's Game Plan - Forbes.com. Warning to : is gunning for you. And as soon as Oracle can complete its deal with , which is hemorrhaging $100 million every month, Ellison said, Oracle will begin to recreate itself as a “systems” company and go after its No. 1 competitor, IBM. On Monday evening, the long-time chief executive and chairman of put in a rare public performance at the Silicon Valley lecture series called the Churchill Club. , the former chief executive of and long-time senior executive at , quizzed Ellison in an interview that touched on topics as diverse as Ellison’s famous pursuit of the America’s Cup, to why he’s buying Sun Microsystems and the meaning of cloud computing.
“Everyone looks around and is like, ‘Yah! Like everything is in the cloud,’ ” mocked Ellison. “ My objection is it’s absurdity–it’s nonsense … What are you talking about? It was classic Silicon Valley entertainment, complete with a surprise cameo appearance by the chairman of Sun, . “We want to be T.J.
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Additionally, Oracle's Siebel Telecom applications have become the standard for telco call centers and customer care. Oracle 10g is the leading relational database and TimesTen is the most widely used in-memory database for the communications industry. Oracle Fusion Middleware is the fastest growing service delivery platform for next generation networks using network independent standards. Portal offers the only billing and revenue management solution with a modern, object-oriented architecture built on Oracle that can bill and manage all communications services including wireline, wireless, broadband, cable, voice over IP, IPTV, music, and video.