tjbyfield
12th July 2006, 04:50
This article looks intestesting. Oracle are promoting JDE much more agressively than SSA is promoting/marketing Baan!
In a move to reassure small-business customers that it plans to support Oracle's software products for years to come, IBM has announced a server package.
Intended for businesses with fewer than 100 seats of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, the package is called the IBM System i 520 Solution Edition for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
It includes integrated hardware and software with enough disk storage to support an application suite including asset lifecycle, customer relationship, financial, human capital, project, supplier and supply chain management.
Oracle executives have been making efforts in recent months to retain the 5000 JD Edwards customers they inherited when the company purchased PeopleSoft in January.
At a user conference in April, Oracle president, Charles Phillips, pledged to support the company's full range of ERP products in perpetuity.
This product backs up his promise with an improved hardware platform, according to System i global sales and business development manager for Oracle at IBM, Carter Adkinson.

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