After more than five years in development Larry Ellison formally announced the release of Oracle’s Fusion Applications suite of products. The development of Fusion Applications started in 2004 and it is the largest engineering feat in the history of Oracle. “Oracle has taken the [best] functionality from its own eBusiness Suite applications, as well as its acquired PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards and Siebel products, and rebuilt them to run on the company’s Fusion middleware,“ to form the next generation of enterprise application technology. By insisting on merging the best features from Oracle’s ERP, CRM, and HRMS products, Oracle created a Fusion applications design team using experienced engineers from eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and JDE, and consolidated their design work on a single unified platform. Fusion Applications are the first enterprise applications to be written 100% on Standard Fusion Middleware. In previous releases of Oracle’s family of applications (eBS, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, and Siebel) the applications middleware was different from Oracle’s standard Fusion Middleware platform. Oracle in essence had two middleware development teams working separately on two types of middleware. The goal behind Fusion Applications was to combine the applications middleware team with the Fusion middleware team and extend Fusion Middleware to support Fusion Applications.