Hewlett-Packard says that its customers run more Oracle databases and applications on HP hardware than any other vendor. But at HP’s big user conference this week no Oracle presence and one conference session is titled “Oracle database migrations to Microsoft SQL Server with HP services.”
Microsoft 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 benefits of investment include newly announced products optimized for Microsoft SQL Server, including the HP Business Data Warehouse Appliance, and HP Database Consolidation Solution for Microsoft SQL, used for consolidating transactional databases.
Thus Microsoft blog gives more info on product direction
