Former Sun channel executive Tom Wagner, who once served as vice president of the company's North America partner sales, has been hired by Oracle to handle the company's new hardware division, reported Joseph F. Kovar for ChannelWeb. As part of Oracle's acquisition of Sun, this new hardware division is expected to continue the production and future development of much of Sun's server, storage, operating system and software business as Oracle has promised to do.

According to Kovar's report, Wagner was one of the industry's best-known channel chiefs while at Sun. "Many legacy Sun solution providers still remember Wagner as the executive who did the most to clean up the 2007 channel mess caused by Sun's top executives when they ran a two-week 25th Anniversary Sale promotion under which certain popular server, storage, software and services products were made available to customers with discounts ranging up to 60 percent, but only for products purchased direct from the vendor," Kovar writes.

Mark Teter, CTO of Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a Denver-based solution provider and longtime Sun partner, cheered the news of Wagner's hiring.

"Tom is an industry veteran and one of the best channel bosses in the business," Teter said. "We are anxious to bring the product lines and technologies that Oracle/Sun delivers. The sooner they can get their channel program in place, the sooner Oracle/Sun can deliver their promise to their stockholders."

Bob Olwig, vice president of business strategy at World Wide Technology, a St. Louis-based solution provider and longtime Sun and Oracle partner, blogged that he expects great things from Oracle with Wagner.

"With valued relationships going back many years, I'm hopeful and optimistic that Sun's senior leadership including Anthony Robbins and, recently returning, Tom Wagner will carry the 'partnering' torch forward within Oracle," Olwig wrote. "We wish the best to the Sun employees and friends we have worked with through the years. We look forward to building on the past and growing our relationship with Oracle for the future."

More Information

VARs Cheer As Oracle Hires Former Sun Channel Chief - Kovar's article

Sun Oracle and WWT - Olwig's blog

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