From PC World: Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison unveiled Sunday new cloud applications and services, including a training tool that integrates with the company's human resources application, and gave a glimpse of the company's security strategy.
As is expected with Ellison's speeches, the keynote at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco was peppered with digs at rivals. He took a swipe at IBM and SAP, saying that Oracle no longer pays any attention to both companies because they don't really have a cloud play.
But this time Ellison was far more focused on the company's business plans and products and even avoided a reference to the recent move by Dell to acquire EMC.
In a measure directed at IBM, Oracle announced with Intel a partnership, called "Exa Your Power," which offers a free sample proof-of-concept database migration from IBM Power systems to platforms running Intel's Xeon processors.
Ellison said that the company is rolling out new SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications, which were built from the ground up for the cloud using the company's Fusion middleware. It has unveiled applications for e-commerce and supply chain management in discrete manufacturing.
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