Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison has delivered another dose of hype for the vendor’s cloud platform, but many customers may need more convincing before they make the leap.

In many ways, Ellison’s talk at the OpenWorld conference on Tuesday was a rehash of a keynote he delivered on Sunday, although he dug deeper into the technical weeds and even conducted a number of live demonstrations of what he called a “brand-new, majorly upgraded” platform.

“We wanted to make it very easy to move existing Oracle databases and existing Oracle applications to the cloud,” Ellison said. However, “there had to be a bunch of benefits associated with that. We wanted to be able to move [them], modernize [them], and lower your costs.”

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