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US: Microsoft and Oracle, onetime enemies, unite for cloud computing

By  |  June 24, 2013
US: Microsoft and Oracle, onetime enemies, unite for cloud computing

The onetime rivalry between tech giants Microsoft and Oracle seems to be put on hold for now as the companies have announced plans to collaborate in a cloud computing services venture. Reports say the two are looking to join efforts as they operate in overlapping markets and, as cloud computing rises in popularity, will need to cooperate to ensure that consumers who are using Oracle databases on Windows programming will not run into functioning issues. The two companies have a longstanding rivalry stemming from an incident 13 years prior in which the head of Oracle hired a private investigator to look through Microsoft’s trash as it was on trial for antitrust issues.

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