The major players in the Industrial Internet of Things are signing up a wide variety of technology partners to enable their visions of automation and big data, but many of these are coming from the IT arena, leaving mobile operators and vendors on the sidelines. Two new examples involve GE, which has added Oracle to its market-defining and increasingly broad Industrial IoT platform; and fellow heavy industry manufacturer Rolls-Royce, which is partnering with Microsoft. GE will work with Oracle to integrate their respective offerings and create a platform to connect industrial assets across the world digitally. GE Digital will contribute its Predix platform-as-a-service, which supports analytics and services based on data from connected machines. Oracle will add its enterprise solutions,…