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IBM strives to settle scores with Oracle

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Ever since Oracle clinched the $7.4 billion Sun deal, IBM has been on a look out for a moment to settle its scores with Oracle.

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With the release of data analysis systems as well as a finance scheme for Sun business partners, IBM seems to have taken an open dig at Oracle.

IBM Smart Analytics System9600 with System z, and model 5600 with System x, designed for data processing on a mainframe or x86 system, uses Power7-based servers with WebSphere Application Server and DB2 pureScale software to produce very high speed data analysis.

"Clients are demanding a new level of integrated systems that can handle a growing demand of data-intensive workloads while reducing IT costs," said Arvind Krishna, general manager, IBM Information Management. "These new offerings deliver the integration and optimization to more efficiently manage analytic and transactional workloads, freeing clients to invest time and resources in growing the business."

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The model 5600 is currently available while the 9600 will be released by the end of the 2010 second quarter.

IBM also put forth the concept of IBM Global Financing, offering up to $500 million in financing Sun Business Partners migrate towards the resale of IBM systems.

IBM adds that Global Financing's can help partners of working capital maintain healthy balance sheets and minimize risk, a capability Sun-Oracle's in-house financing organization does not provide.

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Moreover, IBM claims that it has already led more than 100 Sun Business Partners to either grow or establish an IBM reseller business within their firm.

IBM Global Financing also will make available its newly developed profit optimizer tool free of charge to Sun Business Partners.

Originally designed for IBM Business Partners, the new IBM-developed tool will now enable Sun Business Partners to model potential market opportunities, including revenue and profit made from selling IBM products and services and running their business with financing from IBM Global Financing.

With the new profit optimizer tool, IBM and Sun Business Partners can evaluate the expected impact of their return on working capital, free cash flow and sales revenue. These are important metrics for Sun Business Partners to consider as they ponder new ways to grow their business in the aftermath of Sun's acquisition.

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