Oracle in the Cloud is busy, very busy

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Martijn Veldkamp

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April 19, 2017

Apiary

Oracle’s first Cloud move this year was to buy Apiary, an enterprise API specialist. Apiary provides hosted tools to build, test and monitor APIs working with REST protocol. It had three funding rounds totaling 10 million dollars.

The firm marries DevOps with workflow for enterprise services and data to be turned into cloud-based applications and services. Apiary will be absorbed in to Oracle’s cloud.

Wercker

The next Cloud move was to buy Dutch company Wercker from my home town Amsterdam. They specialise in management tools for Docker and Kubernetes.

For Oracle, the addition of Wercker, will allow it to offer management and automation features into its own Docker offering on the Oracle Cloud.This, Oracle hopes, will help make its Cloud services more popular with developers.

Oracle is setting up or buying an ecosystem around their two IaaS and PaaS services for a long-term future.

What’s next?

Oracle Buying Docker?