Oracle + Sun: Transforming the IT Industry! What are our strategic middleware solutions?

Visit the on-demand version and presentations of the webcast:
• Charles Phillips: Welcome and Oracle + Sun: Transforming the Industry View the Webcast (43 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
• John Fowler: Hardware Strategy View the Webcast (39 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
• Thomas Kurian: Software Strategy View the Webcast (48 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
• Edward Screven: Operating Systems and Virtualization View the Webcast (19 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
• Juergen Rottler: Customer Service and Support Strategy View the Webcast (23 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
• Jeff Epstein: Operational Strategy View the Webcast (8 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
• Larry Ellison: Oracle + Sun View the Webcast (59 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)

Additional resources:
• Overview and Frequently Asked Questions for the Developer Community
• Oracle + Sun Product Strategy Webcast Series

OFM 11g Launch Countdown

Please fasten your Lederhosen – time to prepare for the OFM 11g Launch
Make sure that you attend our Launch events
• NAS: Washington (July 1),
• EMEA: London (July 2), Munich (July 2), Paris (July 2)
• APAC/JAPAN: Sydney (July 9), Beijing (July 14), Seoul (July 15), Tokyo (July 17)
• LAD: Sao Paulo (July 21), Mexico City (July 23)
• Online (July 9th )

Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems

Oracle and Sun

On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun). The proposed transaction is subject to Sun stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.

The acquisition combines best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. Oracle plans to engineer and deliver an integrated system—applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Customers benefit as their system integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.

There are substantial long-term strategic customer advantages to Oracle owning two key Sun software assets: Java and Solaris. Java is one of the computer industry’s best-known brands and most widely deployed technologies, and it is the most important software Oracle has ever acquired. Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle’s fastest growing business, is built on top of Sun’s Java language and software. Oracle can now ensure continued innovation and investment in Java technology for the benefit of customers and the Java community.

For details please visit http://www.oracle.com/sun:

• Read the press release
• Listen to the webcast replay
• Letter to customers and partners from Charles Phillips, President, outlining the benefits of the combination
•Overview and Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) for customers and partners
•Learn more about what the combination of Oracle and Sun (PDF) will mean for our you.

Your SOA success at OOW 2009 – Call for papers!

Judson Althoff posted in his blog news about the OOW October 11th – 15th 2009 in San Francisco. Our OOW “Call For Papers” opens March 31. We encourage you, our partners, to submit your abstracts for inclusion in our Oracle OpenWorld agenda. This year, we will accept submissions from March 31 to April 17. Get all the details on or after March 31 here: http://cplan.com/oracleopenworld2009/cfp/
Similar like in the last years we plan special OOW activities for the SOA Partner Community!
Jürgen Kress

To access all information about Oracle SOA Suite and to become a member in SOA Partner Community please fell free to sign up: www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

Tuxedo & SOA! SIs: Who implemented Tuxedo? ISVs: Who embedded Tuxedo?

Now you can integrate this Tuxedo solutions in your SOA environment!

SIs: Re-visit your customer to achieve cost saving and to SOA enable them.

ISVs: SOA enable your solutions and integrate them to the Oracle Fusion Middleware & Oracle Applications environment.

Oracle Tuxedo
Oracle Tuxedo is the industry’s #1 platform for distributed transaction processing. It provides mainframe-class scale and performance on open, distributed systems for software written in C, C++, and COBOL, and is the premier platform for “rehosting” mainframe applications on mainstream hardware. Oracle Tuxedo provides cost-effective reliability, extreme scalability up to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, and investment preservation by extending the life of existing IT assets as part of a modern architectures such as SOA. Oracle Tuxedo is Oracle Fusion Middleware’s strategic transaction processing product. Learn more about its role in Oracle’s middleware strategy.

Oracle Salt for Tuxedo
Leading Distributed Transaction Processing Platform Delivers Extended Integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Enhanced Standards Support, and Strengthened SOA -Enablement

If you are and SI or ISV using Tuxedo please feel free to contact me any time – Jürgen Kress and become a member in the Oracle SOA Partner Community www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

BEA Integration completed

On 1st December 2008, Oracle finalised the integration of BEA systems across the Europe Middle East and Africa region.

This acquisition helps to make us a more strategic to our partners and customers. The combination of Oracle and BEA Systems brings together the leading product development experts in open-standards technology, provides a larger global footprint of sales and services professionals to address customer needs, and provides a larger network of partners to deliver solutions using application infrastructure technology.

Together, Oracle and BEA Systems provide a complementary best-in-class middleware portfolio that spans Java Application Servers, transaction processing monitors, SOA and business process management, user interaction and Web 2.0, identity management, business intelligence, enterprise content management and vertical-specific technologies. Our partners can expect to benefit from a stronger, more scalable software vendor. With the combined solutions, partners can focus their investment and build one strong middleware practice

As our Q2 FY09 numbers proof Oracle is the key player! Charles Philips “all the product in Fusion Middleware grow very strong, we do have 18.000 (OFM) customers”

We welcome our new partners from BEA Systems into the Oracle Partner Network and would like to invite them to join the SOA Partner Community: please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

What to do after Oracle Open World 2008?

Larry where do you hide your trimaran?

Larry pointed out in is OOW keynote that his first job is to win the Americas Cub.
As many of you will know, I am sailing a Hobie Cat Tiger. Thanks to Russell Coutt
Larry is into Cat sailing.

Larry’s new high-tech 90-foot by 90-foot trimaran BOR 90 just arrived in San Diego. The boat is a monster with 500 square meters mainsail which makes up to 3 times the wind speed. The BOR 90 is hidden between the Cenvention Center at the Embarcadero. Best to go for a drink at the Joe’s Crab Shack restaurant and you will have a perfect view.

The boat will be ready within the next three days- time to book your trip!
Larry time to get a ride!