Exadata V2, Oracle's first hardware supply board, IBM

BKJIA reporter San Francisco exclusive report] On the afternoon of October 11, local time, Beijing time), Oracle announced a new Partner Program, the company announced at the 2009 Oralce global technology conference.

This Oracle PartnerNetwork plan is divided into four levels: platinum certification, gold certification, silver certification and certification partner.

Judson Althoff, senior vice president of Oracle in charge of partnerships, told bkjia.com that Oracle will provide training and product price discounts to partners at different levels. In light of the current Unclear economic situation, Judson said that Oracle will work hard to reduce the partner's authentication costs, and strive to provide more training to help the partner master the relevant products and technologies.

George Wong, global vice president of Oracle, responsible for the Asia-Pacific Alliance and channel strategy, said in an interview with BKJIA that the company plans to cover all of Oracle's current and future products, specific plans for the Asia-Pacific region are still being developed.

Judson also said in the interview that the Exadata V2 database machine, the first hardware product jointly launched by Oracle and Sun, is now available to partners. In the previous advertisement, Oracle offered a reward to allow IBM to "Release the horse", and IBM chose to release its database machine pureScale one day before OOW 2009, known as the "Exadata Killer ".

Figure Exadata V2 advertisement of the latest Oracle Database machine cooperation with Sun

Judson said that the cooperation between Oracle and Hewlett-Packard on the Exadata v1 database machine will continue, "but the cooperation with Sun will go deeper ". If there is customer demand, the OEM supply of Exadata v1 will continue, but Judson did not discuss the subsequent Upgrade Plan of the product.

1. Oracle and Sun released new-generation Exadata database products
2. Oracle released the first hardware product in history: Exadata Storage Server