Oracle and Microsoft will announce the details of a new partnership on Monday, the partnership forms part of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s promise of a series of “startling announcements” surrounding the database giant made this Thursday.

Ellison said that Oracle will be soon announcing partnerships with the largest and most important SaaS businesses in the world, including Salesforce and NetSuite, alongside Microsoft.

The new partnership are expected to be based around upgrades to Oracle’s new offering, based on the fact that Salesforce and NetSuite have already been in partnerships with Oracle.

Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella will make a speech with Oracle's president Mark Hurd at a press conference on Monday.

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