Judson Althoff Blog

Forget Elvis - Oracle PartnerNetwork wants a lot more conversation. This is why we have begun reaching out to you in a whole new host of ways. We’ve Tweeted about it. We’ve Facebooked about it. We’ve Linked you In. And now, we are blogging about it.

Oracle PartnerNetwork is providing you with a platform to connect with members of the OPN Community via Oracle Mix, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. We encourage you to join the conversation and to share ideas and experiences. We've also developed a podcasting channel just for partners, OPN PartnerCast. We want to deliver you information quickly and effectively and we want to know what you think. Your engagement with us via these platforms and the real time feedback you can provide is invaluable to our success.

Check out Judson’s message to you regarding social media and tweet us your thoughts @ oraclepartners

Happy New Year!
The OPN Communications Team

Hi, this is Ted Bereswill. I lead the North America Alliances & Channels organization, and I'm pleased to have this opportunity to share an exciting announcement. This year, for the first time ever, our partner community will have access to information shared at Oracle's FY10 Global Kickoff.

In response to the current economic climate and based on our success with virtual events, we've redesigned our annual sales kickoff in an online format. Our sales teams will access strategic messages, training, and new resources on demand. And to leverage this valuable material for all of you, we're launching our first online Partner Kickoff on July 7th. You'll have desktop access to keynotes from Oracle executives, product updates, and targeted information from our Alliances & Channels and Sales leaders around the globe.

We're very optimistic about the year ahead, and we're working to enhance our customer and partner relationships to ensure our mutual success. Partner Kickoff reflects an important new phase in our collaboration with you. Please check out the latest event information on the Partner Kickoff site.

Thanks for your support.

Ted Bereswill
Senior Vice President
North America Alliances and Channels

I'm very excited about the upcoming FY10 Partner Kickoff and want to make sure you plan to join us on July 7, 2009. You will have the opportunity to hear messaging directly from Oracle's top executives: Charles Phillips and Safra Catz as well as leaders in our major lines of business, Database, Middleware, Applications, and Industries. In addition, you'll hear from A&C leaders in your region.

I recorded some thoughts on this new initiative. Check it out below. And be sure to join us on July 7th here.

Good Selling,
Judson Althoff

Well, a lot, for the record. Speaking of records, how about the one where Oracle announced a new world record TPC-C benchmark for Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One running on Windows? With this result, Oracle now holds the top four record benchmark positions in the Top Ten TPC-C price/performance category and further demonstrates Oracle's commitment to providing enterprise-class scalability and performance at a low cost to customers of any size.

Or what about the one where Oracle WebLogic Server, a strategic component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle Database 11g running on a Dell™ PowerEdge™ server, set a world record dual-node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark? Impressed? So were we.

This isn’t the only activity going on with Oracle and Dell. The Dell Product Group Engineering team, in conjunction with Oracle Server Technologies, has recently completed testing and validation of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and 11g Release 1 on the latest blade servers. In coming months validation will be completed on the latest Nehalem servers offered by Dell. All validations include Oracles Database clustering technology RAC (Real Application Clusters). In addition, the Database validations were completed utilizing Windows 2008, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating Systems. All of this to provide customers pre-tested and pre-configured environments for the purpose of easing the overall implementation. Cool, huh?

There's a lot more to share. Click here or here for more information on how Oracle and Dell are working together.

Thanks for letting me sit in, click here for more information on the Oracle Dell relationship.

Jim Standard
Vice President
Global Channel Sales

I'm very excited to tell you about a new commercial model we're launching for ISVs interested in delivering SaaS applications on the Oracle Platform for SaaS. The new model allows ISVs to flexibly license components of the Oracle Platform for SaaS, including Oracle Database and WebLogic, on a monthly basis. In other words, SaaS ISVs can now license the Oracle products they need, when they need them . . . as well as scale their ongoing license investment based on their company growth and end-user demand.

If you're not already aware, you should know that several of the largest SaaS ISVs in the world are already developing and running their applications on the Oracle Platform for SaaS. This new model enables an even broader community of ISVs to build, deploy and manage SaaS applications on the same platform!

I was able to catch up with Judson in his office recently to get his thoughts on this offering:

Be sure to check out my blog and visit the SaaS Knowledge Zone on OPN for additional information.

Thanks for letting me sit in,
Kevin O'Brien
Senior Director
Oracle Worldwide Alliances & Channels