Oracle presents an expanded Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) portfolio at Oracle Openworld 2012, with 7 additions covering developer team services, analytics and collaboration, amongst others.
The company also plans to rival Amazon Web Services with an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering. Described by CEO Larry Ellison as "not plain old commodity infrastructure," the Oracle IaaS includes OS and virtualisation technologies and is powered by Exadata, Exalogic and SuperCluster machines.
Back in 2008, Ellison famously described cloud computing as "complete gibberish" and a fad. Now it looks like he is eating his words back...
The PaaS services additions include Oracle Planning and Budgeting (delivers Oracle Hyperion Planning as a subscription-based cloud service), Financial Reporting (management reporting and financial statements), Data and Insight (collects data from enterprise, social and external sources), Social Sites Cloud (site creation), Developer Cloud (provides development tools, source control management, continuous integration and document collaboration), Storage Cloud (cloud-based storage) and Messaging Cloud (handles communications within application both within and outside the Oracle Cloud).
The new PaaS service are currently in preview mode, and Oracle gives no actual launch dates. The Oracle IaaS also has no set release date.
