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Oracle changes its ASP strategy; Third parties can now deliver e-business apps.(Brief Article)
B to B, August, 2000 by KARPINSKI, RICHARD
With characteristic flair, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison once declared that his company would only sell its hosted applications via third parties "over my dead body."
Well, Ellison is still very much alive, and Oracle recently expanded its application service provider strategy to do just that.
Under Oracle's new iHost for applications program, announced late last month, an array of third-party ASPs will be allowed to deliver Oracle e-business apps to customers.
Previously, the only way to get an online version of an Oracle
e-business application -- such as financial, human resource or procurement apps -- was through Oracle's own ASP unit, Business OnLine.
Ellison made his "dead body" pledge at the launch of Business OnLine...
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