Oracle launches a chatbot development platform

At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco today, Larry Ellison, Oracle's former chief executive and current chief technology officer, showed off a new platform for building and running chatbots. Not surprisingly, Oracle is positioning its chatbot platform as a simple interface for enterprise applications. But the chatbots made with it can work in modern messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, Slack, and Kik. The tool doesn't require you to write in Java, PHP, or even JavaScript, Ellison said. Instead, it involves dragging and dropping in a graphical user interface.