Oracle's Alliance With Microsoft Halts Its Dead-End Cloud Strategy
- Effort by Oracle to offer cloud computing has trailed rivals
- Move would help Oracle preserve database market advantage
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Oracle Corp. announced Wednesday that it has secured a cloud-computing alliance with Microsoft Corp., an acknowledgment the database giant’s go-it-alone approach to the cloud wasn’t working.
The software makers will connect their data centers so mutual customers can more easily use cloud services from both companies, Redwood City, California-based Oracle said in a statement. Clients can run applications on Microsoft’s Azure cloud that are tethered to databases on Oracle Cloud. A single login will let customers access either system, the companies said.