Oracle buys telephony supplier

Oracle is adding to its applications portfolio with the purchase of computer telephony supplier Versatility for $12 million in stock. Versatility?s call centre capabilities will be added to Oracle?s front office applications. Oracle will add Versatility?s outbound telesales and telemarketing functionality to its inbound service call centre application. The US vendor also this week launched version 4.0 of its Web Application Server, renamed as Application Server. It supports Oracle, Java and mainframe applications.