The buzz ahead of this week’s Oracle Cloud World grows louder as Oracle and longtime, and at times bitter, rival Microsoft jointly announce that Oracle's Exadata platform is coming to Azure cloud.

Microsoft plans to make Oracle software generally available on Windows Azure as of March 12 and has shared publicly for the first time a planned price list. Microsoft and Oracle announced back in June ...

Oracle and Microsoft on Wednesday said that they were jointly launching a new service, dubbed Oracle Database Service for Azure, that will allow Azure customers direct access to Oracle databases ...