Oracle opening cloud development center in Seattle

Redwood City, Calif. -- Oracle Corp. announced it is opening a cloud development center in Seattle, its first such center outside of California. The company, which plans to hire about 100 engineers to start, said it chose Seattle to take advantage of the “deep expertise” in cloud computing available in the city’s rapidly growing technical community.



"Oracle is committed to providing organizations with the industry's broadest and most advanced cloud portfolio," said Prashant Ketkar, VP, product management, Oracle. "By opening this state-of-art facility, we are equipped to aggressively build out new cloud services. Seattle has a deep pool of talented engineers with its rich history of innovation and is the perfect location for us to harness that talent in order to accelerate our cloud investments."



The center will be run by Seattle tech natives Craig Kelly, most recently chief technology officer at Edifice, and Don Johnson, formerly with Amazon and RealNetworks.