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Oracle Exec Says This Benefits Both Customers and Partners

Oracle plans to continue Sun’s roadmap practically unchanged, but it will move towards a direct channel model, said Nicky Sheridan, country manager at Oracle South Africa (SA), who believes this will improve service to customers and take away part of the “less value-added perspective of the business” from channel partners.

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Tom Wagner to Handle New Hardware Division

Former Sun channel executive Tom Wagner, who once served as vice president of the company’s North America partner sales, has been hired by Oracle to handle the company’s new hardware division, reported Joseph F. Kovar for ChannelWeb. As part of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, this new hardware division is expected to continue the production and future development of much of Sun’s server, storage, operating system and software business as Oracle has promised to do.

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