Microsoft and Oracle announced
a new partnership that will bring a number of Oracle products to
Windows Server and the company’s Azure cloud computing platform. These
Oracle products include Java, Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server.
Oracle customers can run supported Oracle software on Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure. Oracle also now provides license mobility for customers who want to run its software on Azure and bring Oracle Linux to Azure.
Microsoft, on the other hand, will offer Java in Windows Azure and
will soon add Infrastructure Services instances with configurations for
Oracle Java, Oracle Database and WebLogic Server to the Windows Azure
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As Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s president of its server and tools business notes in the company’s announcement today,
he believes that “this partnership will help customers embrace cloud
computing by improving flexibility and choice while also preserving the
first-class support that these workloads demand.”
Oracle president Mark Hurd echoes this statement and also notes that
Oracle is “committed to providing greater choice and flexibility to
customers by providing multiple deployment options for our software,
including on-premises, as well as public, private, and hybrid clouds.
This collaboration with Microsoft extends our partnership and is
important for the benefit of our customers.”
It’s worth noting that Amazon Web Services also offers a number of Oracle enterprise solutions
for its customers. The partnership with Microsoft, however, seems to go
a bit beyond this and, for the most part, covers a different set of
services.
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