March 16th, 2014 
Christian Weidelman 
While not news that Microsoft and Oracle have been building tighter ties for a while now it has now opened up an announcement for Azure built images of Oracle. For those of us that get to deal with Oracle on occasion this provides an opportunity to work with Oracle without a larger investment.
The Register has a good article on the details of what types of images have been added to Azure as well as some conceptual pricing.
With this news it may signal a sea change for Oracle and a more open licensing policy in regards to virtualization. One could at least hope.
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