Oracle Vows Unlimited Support for Acquired Apps

May 11, 2006 from CRM Daily - "Oracle has assured its installed base that there will be no forced marches to Fusion, its next-generation set of applications. At Oracle's Collaborate 2006 user conference, the company announced that it will indefinitely support and upgrade the products it gained through its acquisitions of PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems, as well as its own line of applications. Oracle had previously committed to support the products only through 2013. Jesper Andersen, Oracle's senior vice president of application strategy, said the move was made to ease the fears of users of the older products. "We have 30,000 customers and need to make sure we treat them well [so] they'll stay with Oracle a long time," he said."

180 View - It's taken a while for Oracle to come round but it sounds like Oracle is now listening to its customers. We suspect that there is an ulterior motive too. Oracle's prospects will be reluctant to purchase any of their existing systems with an unknown future.