Oracle

Ellison repeatedly drummed in the importance of using industry-standard languages — namely Java — calling out competitors SAP and Salesforce.com for bucking this idea. Ellison later argued against multi-tenancy — which Benioff lobbied for before in the day — citing that it was the state-of-the-art 15 years ago, nevertheless that all the modern compute clouds use virtualisation as part of their security model.

The Oracle Social Network

Layered within Fusion Applications is the Oracle Social Network, a secure collaboration tool built into fusion applications. The idea behind the platform is simple enough: it's designed to enable employees to collaborate.

So far, the user interface and features look fairly standard with task lists, the ability to create networks with the people you work with, etc. Though it's arguably more attractive than SAP's R/3 UI, which Ellison brought up on the big screen to make loud and clear. Anyway all of the Fusion Applications will run on mobile devices.

Thanks for the industry players comments - though i have been a hatter of apple fan boys - i in point of fact will miss the man that Steve was.

"Jobs leaves behind his wife, four children, two sisters and 49,000 Apple employees."- and 17 suicides at Foxconn.Just sayin'.