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• Oracle cautiously pushes Fusion Applications at conference

  Oracle is continuing to take a cautious approach in pushing its new Fusion Applications to enterprises.

• Oracle said to be making progress on Fusion apps

  Observers say Oracle has finally made substantial progress on its next-generation Fusion Applications suite, more than three-and-a-half years after the project was first announced.

• Oracle app development chief leaves

  A top executive at Oracle in charge of application development has left the company, according to reports, raising questions about the status of its high-profile Fusion applications project as its annual OpenWorld conference nears.

• AMD to make Fusion chips

  A senior AMD executive says the chipmaker plans to manufacture the first of its upcoming Fusion chips itself, quashing speculation that the task would be outsourced.

• Will Oracle fuse BEA into Fusion?

  Market share and technology, a sometimes unbeatable combination, is the raison d'etre behind Oracle's acquisition of BEA, say several industry analysts. What Oracle wanted was access to the high-quality, large installed customer base that BEA owned. The high-end customers who use middleware for the most demanding applications are owned by either BEA or IBM, so this acquisition inches Oracle closer to IBM's scale, says Yefim Natis, a Gartner vice president. If the acquisition is approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, it will still put Oracle in second place behind IBM as the leading application infrastructure vendor.

• Ellison touts Fusion apps at OpenWorld

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison didn't display much of his traditional flamboyance at Oracle's recent OpenWorld conference, but he did preview the company's next-generation Fusion Applications and said its Unbreakable Linux offering has met with initial success.

• Oracle Fusion head resigns

  John Wookey, who had been heading Oracle’s Project Fusion integration project, has left the company.

• Oracle development head gives Fusion update

  Oracle’s senior vice president of applications development, John Wookey, spoke recently with with Marc L Songini of Computerworld US about Project Fusion.

• Fusion’s long fuse should ensure against burns

  Over the past few years, Oracle has purchased several application software manufacturers, including Siebel, Retek, ProfitLogic and PeopleSoft. Following its acquisition binge, Oracle has announced that all its current application software will be migrated to a new platform, Fusion, in late 2007.