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Oracle guns for HP partners

by on03 October 2011


So much for buying the company
Anyone who thinks that Oracle wants to buy HP might want to think again. It seems that Larry Ellison's cunning plan is to gut the outfit.

Word on the street is that Oracle is head hunting HP hardware partners as part of an aggressive recruitment blitz aimed at growing its solution provider network by as many as 8,000 partners to 25,000 over the next year. Oracle is chucking huge amounts of cash at the small medium business market in the wake of the recent launch of the Oracle Database Appliance, the first Oracle integrated hardware-software offering built from the ground up to drive sales through Oracle channel partners.

Judson Althoff, senior vice president of worldwide alliances and channel sales for Oracle in a press briefing on the opening day of Oracle's massive OpenWorld conference said that the outfit was  going to go into its competitor's base because he thinks there are some fairly effective partners out there that are looking for new technologies to sell.

He thinks HP from a product standpoint really hasn't innovated that much. And Oracle is going to go after the "the very best in the industry and some of those are going to be competitive wins."
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