Sun solution providers under contract with Oracle from the previous Sun Partner Advantage channel program will see those contracts expire on Oct. 15 and will be under Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) contracts beginning Oct. 16, said Judson Althoff, senior vice president of worldwide alliances, channels and embedded sales, in an interview with CRN's Rick Whiting.
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The word from Oracle to Sun VARs is they need to join the Oracle Partner Network (OPN), although some of the specifics remain sketchy. In two separate articles from CRN, the topic on Oracle's outreach to Sun VARs is discussed, and an entry on the VAR Guy blog also asks if Sun partners really need to embrace Oracle solutions. This article highlights these discussions.
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In his breezily titled piece "How Oracle has made Sun rise again" silicon.com writer Tim Ferguson observes that, a mere six months from Oracle's acquisition of Sun, the latter company has turned the profit and loss corner for the first time in more than a year. " During the first full quarter with Sun under the Oracle umbrella, Ferguson continues, Sun's hardware business added some $1.2bn in revenue to the Oracle ledgers, which amounted to $400m in profits.
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Partners interested in identity management, Oracle Exadata, MySQL, Oracle VM, Java, developer tools, Oracle Solaris, Sun servers, Sun storage, and Enterprise Manager Ops Center, now have an opportunity to become more knowledgeable and/or specialized in these areas via the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), which has launched new Knowledge Zones in each of these product lines. Knowledge Zones are designed to assist in making opportunities available to those specialized in a product and are meant to help companies distinguish their offerings from the competition.
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The Sun Software Library which used to let users search through Sun's partner database to find applications that ran on Solaris 10 is no longer available. The new location for this type of information can either be found at the Oracle Partner Network Solutions Catalog or the Sun Partner Advantage Program Partner Directory.
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