Oracle's Ellison and Salesforce's Benioff end feud, announce deal

Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff publicly ended one of Silicon Valley's most bitter feuds on Thursday as they leapt into a major alliance aimed at selling more Internet-based software.

On a conference call to outline their new pact, the moguls, who in the past had been harsh critics of each other's businesses, said they plan to collaborate in the fast-growing area of cloud computing.

Their comments were a far cry from two years ago, when Ellison called Salesforce.com the "roach motel" of cloud-computing and Benioff ridiculed Oracle for selling "false cloud" products.

"Larry and I have worked together for, I think, 27 years since I first started at Oracle," Benioff told analysts and reporters.

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Oracle announces the availability of MySQL, Cluster 7.3

After a little over a year of development work and a few preview releases, Oracle is announcing the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.3.This brings a number of important new features and enhancements to the open source clustering module for the MySQL database.But the real big news in this announcement is the long-awaited inclusion of the support of foreign key constraints, which had been one of the most requested feature enhancements for the database in the past three years.

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