Dell and Oracle have entered into strategic partnership with an initiative to significantly lower the cost of business-critical computing for a broader range of customers.
The new partnership continues to make it easy for customers to acquire and deploy business-critical computing based on standardised and cost-effective technology.
The initiative includes an exclusive go-to-market agreement, making Dell the first Oracle partner to deliver a shrink-wrap packaged offering of Oracle Standard Edition One.
The Oracle standard edition one will be made available with Dell PowerEdge servers world-wide, It will also continue working to expand customers adoption of grid technology with solutions based on Oracle real application cluster technology.
Additionally, both companies are working together to provide customers in China a one-stop, single point of contact for Linux and grid computing.
The configuration of both consists of Dell PowerEdge 2600 or 2650 servers and CDs containing the Oracle Standard Edition One database, which will include a shrink-wrap licensing agreement that allows the customer to enter into a contract to license the Oracle Database by simply breaking the seal.
This demonstrates the ongoing commitment of both companies to lower the cost of enterprise computing by making business-critical technologies, such as Oracle's industry-leading database, easily available to all companies, regardless of size.