Oracle Visual Code brings cloud-based app dev to business users

With its Project Visual Code platform, Oracle is taking a swing at Salesforce in cloud-based application development.

Detailed this week, the platform for low-code development provides a browser-based interface for building standalone applications or extensions to existing applications. Geared to "citizen developers," Visual Code is a direct competitor to the Salesforce Lightning component-based development platform.

Oracle's Bill Pataky, vice president of mobile development and developer tools, said that Visual Code's advantage over Lightning is in extending applications, with users able to integrate with third-party data from sources like Facebook or Google Maps.

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