 | |  | | By Doug Henschen | | | Oracle Goes All In On Microsoft's Cloud Cloud computing made strange bedfellows out of Microsoft and Oracle on Monday, as the longtime rivals announced a strategic partnership whereby customers will be able to run Oracle software and Java on Microsoft's Azure platform.
The partnership, which was jointly announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Oracle President Mark Hurd, will see Oracle certify and support Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server, Java, Oracle Linux, and Oracle applications on Windows Server Hyper-V and Windows Azure. Oracle's software already runs on Windows Server in hundreds of thousands of on-premises deployments, but the partnership extends that capability to Microsoft's cloud.
Microsoft and Oracle are by no means backing away from competition in the database and applications arenas. Microsoft SQL Server squares off against Oracle Database and Oracle MySQL, while Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM applications compete against multiple Oracle counterparts. But the partnership is a pragmatic acceptance that both companies need more deployment options if they are to grow their respective cloud businesses.
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