Larry ellison and marc benioff, the CEOs of Oracle and Salesforce.com, respectively, apparently ended a long-standing and sometimes bitter public rivalry when they recently agreed to a nine-year deal under which their companies will integrate their technologies. Announced last month, the agreement calls for Salesforce.com, long a user of Oracle's database, to standardize on Oracle's Linux operating system distribution, Java middleware and Exadata server platform, and use Oracle's Fusion human capital management (HCM) services and cloud-based financial software. Oracle will integrate Salesforce.com's software with those applications.
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