Starting March 12, Microsoft will begin charging customers for Oracle software running on Windows Azure.



From All About Microsoft:

Microsoft and Oracle announced back in June 2012 a deal via which Oracle apps would be certified to run on Windows Server, Hyper-V, and Windows Azure. Before the deal was cemented, Oracle's Weblogic Server and Oracle database were only certified to run on Windows Server. As part of the deal, Oracle Linux also was added to the list of Linux variants supported in Azure's virtual machines. And Oracle and Microsoft said they'd take Java support a step further, with Oracle certifying Java to run on Hyper-V and Windows Azure.

Microsoft hadn't been charging for Oracle software running on Azure because the combinations were considered "previews," and not final code. (Microsoft was charging for the Windows Server VMs that Oracle software was running on, but not for the Oracle software itself.)

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