Oracle vs Skytap

The Oracle Corporation is an American global computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. The company primarily specializes in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products particularly its own brands of database management systems. In 2011 Oracle was the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft. The company also develops and builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software, customer relationship management software and supply chain management software.

Skytap, Inc. is a software company based in Seattle, Washington. Skytap Cloud provides self-service access to production-like environments in the cloud. The company was originally founded under the name Illumita in 2006 before undergoing a rename in 2008. Illumita was founded by Brian Bershad, Hank Levy, and Steve Gribble, a trio of University of Washington professors who had done research on virtualization and cloud computing, as well as graduate student David Richardson. Skytap Virtual Lab has since expanded in scope, and was renamed Skytap Cloud in 2008.