Oracle and salesforce.com, two rivals that have been personally at each other’s throats from time to time, said Tuesday that they’ve cut a comprehensive nine-year partnership involving all three tiers of cloud computing: applications, platform and infrastructure.
Late Monday Oracle and Microsoft, also not the best of friends, said Oracle widgetry would run on Azure. The turnabout should probably worry VMware, Red Hat, SAP and maybe even Amazon.
Salesforce, the SaaS maven, is supposed to standardize on Oracle Linux, Exadata engineered systems, the Oracle Database and the Java middleware platform.
Oracle is supposed to integrate salesforce.com with its Fusion HCM and Financial Cloud, and provide the core technology to power salesforce.com’s applications and platform.