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Monday June 22nd was the launch date for Oracle for 24 (and more) Cloud Services. June is traditionally an important month for Oracle when it comes to product launches and important announcements. This year is the same in that respect. The announcements came in a many-hour live webcast including a 45 minute presentation by Oracle CTO Larry Ellison (see videos from Oracle Cloud Platform Launch). I have harvested some of the most relevant slides from this presentation – that capture the essence from his announcements (or at least the things that stood out to me).
See some other relevant resources regarding these announcements:
- Oracle PaaS Platform – Cloud Solutions – overview and details for services
- The importance of Oracle’s PaaS power launch – by Den Howlett on Diginomica
“… All the major boxes are filled in. So you can move any application into the Oracle cloud. “
Launching new cloud services in each of these boxes:
Primary Competitors on PaaS:
A remarkable offering: Application Builder Cloud Service (ABC S): https://cloud.oracle.com/ApplicationBuilder
On PaaS – competing against Amazon. For example on Glacier – archived data service at very low prices:
And on ease of provisioning and management – for environments that include WebLogic or Oracle Database:
On SaaS: comparison against the competition – in breadth and depth of portfolio:
Oracle Cloud operational summary:
Related posts:
OOW 2012 – Larry Ellison’s Keynote Announcements: Exa, Cloud, Database 
OOW 12: The Oracle Cloud strategy – explosive stuff or vaporware? 
The AMIS Summary of Oracle OpenWorld 2013 is available for download – 60-page white paper 
Major take-aways from Oracle OpenWorld 2014 – some relevant conclusions 
Application Container Cloud and Multi Tenant Services – Oracle embracing 3rd party technologies and open source projects
In all a lot off fluffy Cloud air when offerings (already announced @OOW14) still don’t show more than a “Coming Soon”-button. Thanks for the overview.
Marco