Oracle Pushing Fusion To Critical Mass

The efforts at making its acquisitions of PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel all play nice with Oracle applications has reached a halfway mark. If Oracle can pull off Project Fusion without being a major disruption or angering customers, the company may accomplish the most significant project it's had since Larry Ellison founded the company. Oracle has made some very pricey bets that middleware applications beyond its signature back-end database will be the way to maintain a competitive edge against the likes of Microsoft and IBM. In an event at San Francisco's City Hall, Oracle's co-president Charles Phillips told a group of business people and reporters that they had reached the midpoint on the path to combining their acquisitions under Fusion, CRN to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.