Helping Sun hardware VARs take the Oracle leap
Arrow ECS yesterday unveiled a Fast Track program to help Sun hardware VARs move into the Oracle Partner Network (OPN). This is no easy task, since no one outside of Oracle appears to know what role...
View ArticleOracle to VARs: Specialize
So, if you’re an Oracle VAR (or a Sun VAR wanting to become an Oracle VAR) here’s what you gotta do: Specialize. That word came down from on high Tuesday afternoon at an Oracle Partner Network web cast...
View ArticleMost burning questions for Oracle
There are so many questions about what Oracle is doing with its new Sun franchise, it’s hard to suss out the top few, but here’s a try. 1: What’s really going on with Sparc? While John Fowler...
View ArticleMark Hurd heads to Oracle?
Here’s one you had to see coming. Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd is talking to Oracle about his next job, according to the Wall Street Journal citing “people familiar with the matter.” Oracle CEO...
View ArticlePhillips’ Oracle exit not a surprise to some
Charles Phillips, who just resigned as co-president of Oracle, helped that software giant acquire and integrate a whole lotta companies from PeopleSoft to Siebel to BEA to Sun Microsystems. He...
View ArticleHottest topics out of Oracle OpenWorld
There was a lot to ponder at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 aside from the obvious news items: A new Exalogic super-duper Web server that is also–depending on your point of view–a cloud in a box or the return...
View ArticleSun VARs get (temporary) reprieve from Oracle
Sun VARs have been given another two weeks aboard the Oracle partner program to close deals before losing their ability to do so. Oracle had designated October 15 as the end of the Sun Partner...
View ArticleWhither Adrian Jones?
The latest parlor game among Hewlett-Packard channel partners is guessing where Adrian Jones will set up shop. Jones, as first reported by SearchITChannel.com yesterday, quietly resigned from HP last...
View ArticleAdrian Jones surfaces at Oracle
It’s not really announced yet but Adrian Jones, once the channel chief at Hewlett-Packard, is now at Oracle Corp. But, somewhat surprisingly, he has not taken over Oracle’s new Sun hardware channel as...
View ArticleOracle software biz soars but hardware remains a mystery
Both Oracle co-presidents were upbeat on yesterday’s third quarter earnings call–flaunting 37% revenue growth to $8.8 billion compared to the year-ago figures. Sales of new software licenses rose a...
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