Yesterday Oracle announced a major deal with Dell and HP: the two OEMs will certify and resell the Oracle VM virtual infrastructure, along with Oracle Solaris x86 and Oracle Enterprise Linux.
Those customers that will buy Dell’s and HP’s Oracle solutions will have full access to the Oracle Premier Support.

It sounds odd considering the Oracle’s tagline adopted after the acquisition of Sun, Software. Hardware. Complete., to push the idea of an end-to-end computing stack available from a single vendor. But it’s understandable that this is an attempt to increase the Oracle VM market share.
And, market share or not, Oracle VM Server now officially becomes the fourth hypervisor available out-of-the-box in industry standard servers, side by side with Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX.

It will be interesting to see how this will impact the Oracle presence one year from now.

Labels: Alliances, Dell, HP, Oracle

Syndicated via RSS From: http://virtualization.info/en

The Forrester reports stated that Oracle CRM On Demand “has achieved success in the market by offering the same benefits as other CRM SaaS solutions: quick time-to-value, strong usability, and low upfront costs. This value proposition attracts midsized organizations, and it is finding increasing acceptance in units of large companies.” The reports also praised Oracle’s “innovative” features, including social CRM. Oracle’s social CRM helps increase collaboration within organizations. It also helps companies deliver differentiated sales and services. The report continued to say, “The product offers strong sales force automation (SFA) capabilities and partner channel management, and it provides sound support for customer service, customer data management, and analytics.”

Oracle’s Siebel CRM was named a leader for large organizations. The report said, “Siebel CRM is designed to provide robust capabilities that empower users to better address customer needs… the Siebel CRM product for large organizations has achieved best-of-breed status for most CRM functionalities, including: sales, marketing, customer service, field service, partner relationship management, and customer data management.”

Oracle is delighted to have been recognized by Forrester. The SVP of Oracle CRM, Anthony Lye, said, “Oracle CRM enables organizations of all sizes to transform their customer experience by promoting customer acquisition, increasing loyalty and lowering the cost of marketing, selling and servicing. We are pleased that Forrester recognized Oracle for its diverse range of solutions, targeted industry expertise, and flexible deployment options.”

Oracle’s E-Business Suite CRM and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM were also mentioned in the Forrester Report as good ERP options. The E-Business suite provides easy integration and is useful in sales compensation management. PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM also provides strong integration benefits.

Syndicated via RSS From: http://www.blogcrm.com

The deadline is 2nd August, which is a couple of weeks away, so now is the time to get working on those abstract submissions if you haven’t already. Whilst I know it’s tough to be accepted for the agenda, I also know that the user group are always keen to hear some real user stories across a wide range of products and subjects.

The link for submitting papers is: http://www.oug.org/techebs. Once on the homepage, please click on the “Call for papers” tab at the top of the page.

I and others have said enough marvellous things about this particular conference in the past that I don’t think I need say more than it’s one of my favourite events of the year and, even when I try to cut down on conferences, this one is usually a fixture.

Syndicated via RSS From: http://oracledoug.com/serendipity/

Oracle released yesterday version 5.0 of its Sun Ray Software, the solution introduced by Sun in 1999 to centrally control and power its Sun Ray thin clients.

This release introduces a couple of major new capabilities.

First of all, the client part, called Oracle Virtual Desktop Client (formerly Sun Desktop Access Client) can be installed on Mac OS X.
On top of that the product now ships with a connector for VMware View 4, allowing the Sun Ray Clients to be used as View thin clients.

The server component is available for Oracle Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 Update 3, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 Service Pack 2 and Sun Solaris 10 5/09 for both SPARC and x86/x64 architectures.

The software update is available now for download and ships with Sun Ray 270, Sun Ray 2 and the new Sun Ray 3 Plus clients.

Syndicated via RSS From: http://virtualization.info/en

Syndicated via RSS From: http://newbiedba.blogspot.com/

Syndicated via RSS From: http://oracledoug.com/serendipity/