This article from Ovum Research explains that Oracle has clarified its cloud strategy. Oracle new public cloud is expected to be commercially available by mid-2012. Ovum also explains that Oracle has moved beyond SaaS into business process-as-a-service (BpaaS) territory. As far as PaaS is concerned, Oracle should deliver a cloud-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) environment with integrated task/defect-tracking, source repository, build facilities (based on Hudson), and IDE Integration (Oracle JDeveloper, Eclipse, NetBeans).
