Oracle Mends Fences With Microsoft, Salesforce in Cloud Push
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Oracle Corp. is casting aside longstanding rivalries with Microsoft Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc., with partnerships to bolster its cloud-computing services aimed at businesses moving their software online.
In one alliance, Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud-computing service will run Oracle’s database software, Java programming tools and application-connecting middleware, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and Oracle co-President Mark Hurd said. Under a separate nine-year pact, Salesforce is buying Oracle hardware and software to power its applications.