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Amazon adds Oracle to Web Services

ZDNet.com: "Amazon said on Monday that it will be adding various Oracle enterprise offerings to its cloud computing service, dubbed Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

The move will give Amazon’s cloud services some serious enterprise heft. In a blog post, Amazon said it will offer EC2 services preloaded with Oracle’s software–Enterprise Linux (OEL), Database 11g, Fusion Middleware, Enterprise Manager and developer tools–as well as support options. For Oracle Enterprise Linux on EC2 there is a combo of the software giant’s Unbreakable Support and Amazon’s Premium Support."

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