Oracle and Microsoft Forge Surprise Cloud Partnership Despite Decades of Rivalry

Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, made his first ever visit to Microsoft's headquarters this week to announce a new collaboration.
Oracle will place its Exadata database hardware inside Microsoft Azure data centers to allow joint customers to run Oracle databases on Azure.
The partnership will help customers move workloads from their own data centers to the Azure cloud more quickly.
However, Oracle and Microsoft will still compete in cloud infrastructure and databases.
Ellison and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates have competed for decades, but are now collaborating as Oracle wants adoption on Microsoft's larger Azure cloud.

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