The Brobdingnagian growth of the Amazon cloud has forced longtime rivals Microsoft and Oracle into a substantive tech partnership. The operating system giant announced a wide-ranging cloud partnership with the database titan back in June, in response to the rise of the Amazon Web Services cloud. On Tuesday, Microsoft's Windows …

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Wednesday 25th September 2013 01:40 GMT Trevor_Pott

Good to see competition in the American cloud. I wonder if the licensing deals will trickle down to services providers so that those standing up Azure Service Provider can help non-Americans achieve the same benefits?

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1. Wednesday 25th September 2013 08:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  I guess Oracle are getting desperate, now that the bottom has dropped out of the boat anchor (Solaris) market, Microsoft are wiping the floor with them via SQL server, and pretty much no one wants their Linux flavour or NoSQL DBs....
  
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  1. Wednesday 25th September 2013 12:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    @Anon
    
    Hahahahahahahaahahaha
    
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Thursday 26th September 2013 17:06 GMT Britt Johnston

this is bad

I was counting on Oracle buying some patent jam - have to sell off my shares in Blackberry, quick

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Friday 27th September 2013 08:03 GMT CAPS LOCK

Success is assured.

I'm sure the world will be beating a path to the door for this. MicroSoft and Oracle, what a winning combination.

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Friday 27th September 2013 09:13 GMT roselan

> select azure from microsoft union select 12c from oracle;

> PLS-00753

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Monday 30th September 2013 16:34 GMT Anonymous Coward

What about vmware?

Oracle has still not certified their apps to run on VMware although technically they run well. This appears to concide with their asipiration to displace VMware from their leading position.

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