<p>OpenWorld The Brobdingnagian growth of the Amazon cloud has forced longtime rivals Microsoft and Oracle into a substantive tech partnership.</p><p>The operating system giant announced a wide-ranging cloud partnership with the database titan back in June, in response to the rise of the Amazon Web Services cloud. On Tuesday, Microsoft's Windows Server and System Center Group senior veep, Brad Anderson, gave an update to the Oracle OpenWorld audience on the companies' collaboration.</p><p>Developers can now provision the Oracle Database, Java Platform Standard Edition onto Windows Server, and Oracle WebLogic server onto Windows virtual machines running on Azure, Anderson said.</p><p>Microsoft is also offering bring-your-own-license Oracle Linux VMs running Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic.</p><p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/24/microsoft_oracle_cloud/">Keep reading...</a></p>