Enterprise Application Alternatives: What You Should Be Asking Oracle and SAP
P.J. Jakovljevic - April 15, 2005

Challenges to Oracle and SAP

Oracle Corporation has long prospered in the application service provider (ASP) and hosting space with its vision to deliver "software as a service" through the Oracle On Demand offerings (in former incarnations called Oracle.com and Oracle Business Online). At the applications level, Oracle has over 200 customers within the Oracle E-Business Suite On Demand program. Here pricing is based per module and is similar to standard licensing, whereby the license is either perpetual or for a certain period. Product support is about 22 percent or so of the license price per year. Implementation, which is based on the on-line life cycle, is of a fixed scope and fixed fee...