Oracle to invest $3Billion on integration via Cloud Computing
Charles Babcock reports in Intelligent Enterprise on September 22, 2008 that Oracle is planning to use cloud computing in collaboratin with Amazon to integrate the 3000 products it gathered through 50 acquisitions over the past 2 years. Charles Philips spoke of $3Billion targetted to be spent in 2008-2009 across “20,000 developers across 30,000 servers.” Comon interfaces will be used to integrate the applications, but the role the Amazon EC2 platform will play in this is not exactly clear. If Oracle were to use the cloud platform extensively to code and test integration, then it would be a great learning experience for Oracle. This learning experience has the potential to transform into “cloud friendly” products that address the concerns that enterprise customers have.