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Just as abruptly as Oracle had stopped work on a massive data center last year in Salt Lake City, Utah without any explanation, the enterprise software product maker has now resumed work on the project, an Oracle spokeswoman said. When it's finished, the data center will take up some 240,000 square feet and "very likely" cost around $285 million.
Considering Oracle recently scooped up Sun Microsystems and its data centers, resuming construction on the Salt Lake City project indicates the company is pretty serious about expanding its on-demand software business. Oracle only operates a few SaaS (software as a service) business applications, which brought in $779 million in on-demand revenue during the company's fiscal 2009.
Even before construction on the new data center resumed, it was clear where Oracle's focus was headed. The company has been talking up is Fusion Applications, an next-generation suite that is supposed to take the best bits and pieces out of Oracle's other product lines and mesh them together into a single package.
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LanceDacus
May 16, 2011 at 3:58am
I have heard that last year Oracle had an argument with an Atlanta junk removal company about some land where they wanted to expand. I guess they want to expand to Atlanta next or it could just be a fake story written by a reporter that had nothing else to do. Thanks for the update!
