Owners
In the fall of 2012 it was announced that Oracle purchased a share in Engine Yard. Financial terms of transaction between Oracle and Engine Yard do not reveal. It is reported only that Oracle is a minority shareholder and Engine Yard remained the independent company.
Oracle intends to integrate own developments in the field of PaaS with developments of Engine Yard over time. Thanks to it users of recently provided Oracle Cloud PaaS-system will have more opportunities for application development, especially for the Web. The main Oracle Cloud platform is Java EE which is used more often not for web applications, and in powerful corporate systems.
The interest of Oracle in Engine Yard can speak also presence at the last wide partner ecosystem. The set of the expansions created by the third-party companies and intended, for example, for application monitoring and continuous integration is available to users of the Engine Yard systems.