Oracle Unleashes Army of Developers

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced the release by 2008 of "Project Fusion," the company's next-generation information- oriented application architecture and application set. Project Fusion will combine the best features and functions of Oracle's applications with those of PeopleSoft and JD Edwards. The new Project Fusion is a new information age architecture based on industry standards that will be modularized for flexible deployment, optimal performance and easy maintenance. New information-driven applications will incorporate key strengths of all product lines and focus on business process automation, industry-specific capabilities, superior usability, real-time information access and reporting, and a shared data model to provide customers with a single source of truth. A company statement said, "Project Fusion architecture will leverage the latest Oracle technology for scalability, availability, security and performance. Oracle's Senior Vice President of Applications Development John Wookey added in a speech today, "The new architecture and the results companies will achieve will be truly revolutionary, but the path to the new successor product line will be evolutionary," InfoWorld From "This is the first time a major application company is going to commit to an absolutely standards-based development environment," Ellison commented. Oracle is committing a virtual army of 8,000 developers from the three companies to the project. DevNewz | Articles for professional developers