By Darryl K. Taft
“I don’t think the Oracle [introduction] signals that they’re late to market,” said Brad Shimmin, an analyst at Omdia. “The introduction of Verrazzano is less about creating a cloud-agnostic application platform and more about building a consistent platform architecture for OCI that extends beyond the boundaries of Oracle Cloud itself. As the name implies, Verrazzano serves as a bridge for customers looking to modernize their existing applications through the adoption of a cloud native architecture.”
However, Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at Intellyx, begs to differ.
“On first glance, Verrazzano appears to be a collection of open source products that supports container management in hybrid IT environments,” Bloomberg said. “As such, it is similar to many other products on the market, and Oracle is a bit late to the game. Verrazzano’s most important differentiator is how it is tweaked to support Oracle products — useful to Oracle customers to be sure, but not of particular interest to anyone else.”
