https://blogs.perficient.com/2013/08/15/what-windows-azure-supports-oracle-and-java/ Expert Digital Insights Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:59:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://blogs.perficient.com/2013/08/15/what-windows-azure-supports-oracle-and-java/#comment-4110 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:59:35 +0000 https://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/?p=19211#comment-4110 It seemed like the announcement caused a lot of “ho hum” in the industry, but I think the announcement is more profound than many people think.
As far as I know at this time there aren’t a lot of cloud or virtual technologies that host Oracle as a “first class citizen.” So, if an support from Oracle is required, I believe that Oracle support will ask the user/DBA to reproduce it on a physical machine for confirmation and to receive support from Oracle.
I think once this is more widely known Companies, especially ones that consider themselves “Microsoft shop,” and perhaps have a few Oracle databases will want to take advantage of Azure, especially when hardware refresh time comes around. Azure just keeps looking better and better as a Cloud platform.
At Pythian (www.pythian.com) we recognize this and are ready to help people move their Oracle databases onto Azure.
I think this cooperation is a wise decision for both Oracle and Microsoft and am looking forward to seeing more people take advantage of it.
Chris.

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