8:22 am Mon June 24, 2013  Facing seismic tech shift, rivals
Microsoft and Oracle team up  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Credit
Oracle PR   (Update: Corrects to say Ellison hired investigators
to comb through trash of groups sympathetic to Microsoft, not
Microsoft's own trash.)  A seismic shift in technology is
pushing two longtime archrivals to work together. Oracle and
Microsoft are announcing a cloud-computing partnership later
Monday.  There’s a history of bad blood between the folks out in
Redmond and Oracle, run by billionaire yacht-owner Larry
Ellison. Some people may remember the dumpster-diving incident
13 years ago. Ellison hired private investigators to rummage
through the trash of groups sympathetic to Microsoft during the
antitrust case.  But now, the shift to cloud computing—including
the threat from Amazon—is pushing the two fierce competitors to
cooperate. Rob Helm is an analyst at the research firm
Directions on Microsoft.  "I can’t picture Bill Gates and Larry
Ellison sitting down together and sw