Industry leaders team up again to cut business-critical computing costs

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. Oracle Standard Edition One will be made available with Dell PowerEdge servers worldwide. Dell 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 Dell/Oracle configurations consist 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.

Dell and Oracle: affordable, easy to deploy, manage and grow
Oracle Standard Edition One enables users to build and deploy business-critical applications with proven performance, availability, security and reliability. Since Oracle Standard Edition One can be deployed on single servers with a capacity of up to two processors, such as the Dell PowerEdge 2650 and PowerEdge 2600, it is especially attractive to organisations, line-of-business departments and distributed branch environments.

Dell's extensive experience in the volume server market has enabled it to deliver an Oracle Database platform that is easy to purchase, implement and manage. Dell will provide tested and supported configurations of Dell PowerEdge servers with Oracle Standard Edition One and serve as the single point of contact for those customers. Customers that want to purchase only the software can continue buying directly from Oracle.

The combined Dell server and Oracle software platforms are available for order today for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux starting at $US 4,108. As part of this agreement, Dell will also factory install Oracle Standard Edition One with Red Hat Linux and Microsoft Windows on Dell PowerEdge 2600 and 2650 servers later in the year.