HP, Microsoft Takes Joint Aim at Oracle
LAS VEGAS - Hewlett-Packard says that its customers run more Oracle databases and applications on HP hardware than any other vendor out there. But if you are at HP's big user conference this week and interested in talking to Oracle, you won't find the company listed as an exhibitor on the expo floor. But a couple of HP attendees did report seeing a truck with Oracle advertising on it outside the conference. Oracle is nonetheless on the agenda at the conference. On Wednesday, one conference session was titled "Oracle database migrations to Microsoft SQL Server with HP services." Welcome to the vendor wars . Microsoft has had a supersized presence at this year's conference, the result of a joint $250 million, three-year investment that HP and Microsoft announced last year to improve the integration of their products. The fruits of that investment include newly announced products optimized for Microsoft SQL Server, including the HP Business Data Warehouse ...