Oracle Standard Edition One To Come Preinstalled On Dell Servers

"Larry Ellison, CEO of Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle, and Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of hardware giant Dell, joined forces during a conference call with journalists and analysts Tuesday to announce that Dell will offer Oracle's Standard Edition One database prepackaged on Dell PowerEdge 2600 or 2650 servers running on Linux and Microsoft Windows. Dell customers can order the PowerEdge servers with the preinstalled software or activate the Oracle licensing agreement and contract as soon as they break the seal of the shrink-wrapped database software CD." reports Brian Forseca for eWeek.com.

Lisa Vaas thinks this has big implications for the RDBMS market: "Industry watchers interpret the fact that Oracle persuaded Dell to stay at the two-processor level as indicating that Oracle is indeed gaining traction at the level of lower-end servers. After all, as pointed out to me by Wayne Kernochan—formerly of Aberdeen Group and currently president of Infostructure Associates, an affiliate of Valley View Ventures—there must be something in it for Dell. The company must recognize that Oracle is finally getting taken seriously in this space and therefore will be successful in helping Dell to move product."