Microsoft blockchain affiliate BlockApps muses on Oracle's future in decentralised databasesDuring a conversation with the team behind BlockApps, which recently signed a deal to offer an enterprise blockchain toolkit for Microsoft Azure, the subject of Oracle came up.
BlockApps chief executive Victor Wong used the analogy of Oracle as a database provider upon which you build stuff, to explain that BlockApps is providing an easy set of tools for businesses to start building on.
The BlockApps team – Wong, chief technology officer Dr James Hormuzdiar, chief data scientist Kieren James-Lubin, Haskell and API developer Dr Ryan Reich, blockchain geometer Kristoffer Josefsson, and UX architect John Crain – is part of the powerful and varied ConsenSys Ethereum app development studio.
BlockApps' flagship STRATO comprises a blockchain ledger which can run smart contracts customisable for permissioned environments where privacy and scalability are important. The toolkit is available as part of Microsoft's blockchain-as-a-service for enterprise customers on the Azure cloud service.
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