Ellison: Hands off our apps
Stop modifying Oracle Corp. applications. Stop complementing Oracle applications
with third-party software. Stop building applications in-house. That's the message
from Oracle's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison to Oracle customers.
"Let us finish our software. Don't do it for us," he said during
a keynote at the Oracle AppsWorld developer's conference here.
Describing a fundamental change for Oracle's relationship with its customers,
Ellison said e-business processes must become more standardized and simplified,
and, to do so, customers should trust and rely on Oracle.
Business software patched-together with applications from a variety of vendors
will not work as well and is less cost-effective than using an integrated suite
from a single vendor, such as Oracle's own 11i enterprise resource planning
(ERP) suite, Ellison said.
Ellison said Oracle's 11i applications suite lets customers use the Internet
to meet 70 percent to 85 percent of their business needs without the need to
make software-code changes. Oracle's service crew can tweak and modify the applications
to meet the rest of the customers' needs.
"It's a new way of working together, and it means we need to do a better
job of understanding your business," he said.
Businesses "are better off with an 80-percent solution in place in six
months than fantasizing about a 100-percent solution complete in 2 years after
writing a lot of code," he said, referring to companies that build these
applications in-house.
Customers get trapped behind old, heavily-modified versions of Oracle software,
making upgrades difficult, time-consuming and expensive. Ellison wants customers
to rely on Oracle's services.
"We have more than 100 percent of what you need. We don't have 100 percent
of what you want," Ellison said.
Oracle AppsWorld continues through Friday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention
Center. Information about the conference can be found at http://www.oracle.com/appsworld/us/.
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