Oracle Cloud Apps Unleashed: The Good, Bad, And Ugly

Oracle Cloud Apps Unleashed: The Good, Bad, And Ugly red bottom shoesLarry Ellison's unveiling of the Oracle Cloud on Wednesday was a vintage performance weaving together the many-years-delayed introduction of Oracle Fusion apps, a pastiche of social-media capabilities, and a plentitude of pithy barbs aimed at competitors. The good part was seeing Fusion Applications finally getting their due, along with some newly acquired bits like RightNow and Taleo. More on that in a moment.Among the bad parts was seeing Ellison, who posted his first Twitter tweet on Wednesday, walking through a demo of "Oracle Social Intelligence," demoware based on functionality acquired in recent days from Vitrue and Collective Intellect. When it comes to social, Oracle is reacting, late once again, to a social networking trend born years ago and most articulately and effectively brought to the enterprise by Salesforce.com. The ugly? Well, those were the off-base (though admittedly entertaining) slams, like the ...