Oracle Joins Microsoft's Visual Studio

In a move considered by some to be an easing of tensions between rivals, Oracle has joined Microsoft's Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program as a premier-level partner.

'Microsoft is pleased to announce our partnership with Oracle,' said Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Servers and Tools at Microsoft in a statement issued Thursday. 'The integration of Oracle's products with Visual Studio .NET 2003 will provide our mutual customers with a more productive developer environment for building Oracle applications on the Microsoft Windows platform.'

In its announcement, Microsoft hailed the partnership as an initiative that will increase productivity, ease deployment and provide tighter integration between Oracle Database and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.

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