Oracle has joined forces with Fujitsu Siemens Computers to open an International ISV Migration Center in its main office in Istanbul.
independent software vendors (ISVs) from European Enlargement states and CIS, as well as Greece and Cyprus, who want to migrate their solutions to the Oracle 10g platform can turn to this source for the latest hardware and software resources available for testing and validation purposes.
“The use of the services in this center is free,” commented Torsti Pullola, Director of Alliances & Channels at ORACLE EE&CIS, during the opening ceremony at the Migration Center. “ISVs can save a considerable amount of time and money on their migration projects and their rate of success should increase significantly.”
Generally, ISVs have not had access to the hardware and software environments required to conduct extensive testing. As a result, Oracle and Fujitsu Siemens Computers have teamed to establish the new ISV Migration Center in Istanbul that can provide ISVs with essential support. Now, they will be able to experience the capabilities and high performance of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Grid Computing in the center. The Fujitsu Siemens Computers Advanced Blade Ecosystem PRIMERGY BX600 along with connected Network Appliance FAS systems deliver the hardware infrastructure for the testing environment. In addition, there are two laboratories available, each equipped with two workstations and the corresponding network infrastructure.
The ISV Migration Center in Istanbul is part of a large-scale European initiative Oracle has launched to support its ISVs. For example, in July the company opened a comparable migration center in Munich, Germany. “More than 5,200 independent software vendors are now members of our Oracle PartnerNetwork in EMEA,” said Christophe des Dorides, Senior Director Technology Alliances & Channels at Oracle EMEA, “and every day we welcome new ISVs who want to migrate their solutions to our products or to develop new service-oriented applications for Grid computing on its basis.”
