Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms. For Oracle, the new agreements with HP and Dell represent an opportunity to expand its operating system and related software business.

Oracle President Charles Phillips commented that this "announcement demonstrates Oracle’s commitment to openness and will provide Dell and HP customers with new levels of support, and immediate access to deep product expertise, limiting risk in their IT environment.”

The company announced that Dell and HP customers will have full access to Oracle’s Premier Support for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM. Oracle Solaris Premier Subscription for Non-Oracle Hardware provides Oracle support and the Oracle Solaris license for new and existing customers running Oracle Solaris across multiple x86 platforms.

IT Systems Architect John Wu writing for suite101.com advises owners of Dell and HP servers to look at the operating system support matrix of their hardware to find out if their specific server is certified and supported to run Oracle Solaris 10. Customers on HP ProLiant G5, G6, and G7 servers (both DL rackmount ProLiant and BL BladeSystem versions) generally have Solaris 10 support, he notes. The Dell support matrix for Solaris shows support for Solaris 10 Update 8 (Solaris U8) on recent rackmount servers such as the Dell PowerEdge R310, R810 and R910. Wu also has found that there is support for earlier versions of Solaris on older Dell server hardware, although considerably less supported hardware for Solaris 10 on Dell's blade and tower servers.

Paul Miller, vice president, Solutions and Strategic Alliances, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, HP, said, "Customers need to instantly adjust to dynamic business demands, but many have hardwired stacks of applications and infrastructure that can’t rapidly change ... Our joint customers can have complete confidence to grow their businesses while also controlling their costs.”

Similarly, Joyce Mullen, Vice President of Global Alliances for Dell Inc., said this new OEM support agreement will help joint customers "be more competitive while maximizing ROI on technology investments.” [...read more...]

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