Wookey is expected to stay at Oracle for an unspecified transition period as Thomas Kurian, who manages the Fusion middleware business, takes over all Fusion applications development.

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In a bid to remain competitive, and retain its dominant position, it also unveiled the new Oracle Social Network, which adds a social layer on top of the new Oracle Fusion applications.

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The flash memory in the Fusion Drive moves data and applications frequently accessed by the user to the flash memory and move less frequently used data to the hard disk drive as the flash memory becomes full.

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We talk with clients every week, and many large organizations are evaluating Fusion as an upgrade path for its PeopleSoft or other applications.

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The building blocks of Fusion were completed last year, says John Wookey, Oracle's applications chief, and by 2008 they will become a seamless amalgam of databases, applications and the middleware that stitches them together.

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"Whether working on shots in a large studio, boutique or as an independent artist, there has long been a performance gap that limits how well even the most cutting edge applications can perform in professional workstations, " said Vincent Brisebois, Fusion-io Performance Computing Industry Senior Director.

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Oracle has its Fusion strategy that places business process management and integration technology in the center of its collection of applications.

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The Applications Unlimited program intended to help in the transition may no longer be effective now that Fusion is shipping.

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About six years ago, Fusion-io realized that the traditional disk-based storage approach would not work for the next generation applications, like social networking and the cloud.

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