Oracle gears up for infrastructure cloud and 12c database launches • The Register

It will be intriguing to see Larry Ellison (at Oracle OpenWorld in a couple weeks) explain how Oracle has somehow made DBMS multi-tenancy secure/reliable/etc. in ways that its competitors lack

"Larry Ellison has let the cat out of the bag about some announcements that Oracle is making at OpenWorld in San Francisco. The much-awaited Oracle 12c database is coming next week, as is an infrastructure cloud service for the Oracle Cloud, he announced on Thursday.
Oracle 12c will sport features for secure multi-tenancy within a single database instance – something that Ellison has bashed as an idea in the past. It will be "cloud-enabled" - just as Oracle 9i was "Internet ready" and Oracle 10g and 11g were "grid-enabled,". In other words 12c could be clustered."

Oracle gears up for infrastructure cloud and 12c database launches • The Register