Partner Quotes

System Integrators

	"Having significant Oracle and PeopleSoft practices, BearingPoint is pleased that Oracle has made such a strong commitment to protect the investments of both our PeopleSoft and Oracle clients. We are in support of Oracle's long-term vision to provide value."   — Robert Hershey, Senior Vice President, BearingPoint, Inc.
	"...Capgemini has long and very successful relationships with Oracle and Peoplesoft. Capgemini believes the recent acquisition by Oracle of Peoplesoft will secure a high level of support and protection for our customers in the short and long term. We will be working together to ensure the best interests of all our clients will be supported, to the highest level, through the transition and into the future. As well as strengthening our relationship with Oracle, we believe this acquisition will ultimately allow us to serve our customers even better."    —Patrick Nicolet, Global Sales Leader, Cap Gemini
	"Deloitte sees the combination of Oracle and PeopleSoft as a positive move since it now brings together two very strong product sets, which is a plus for our customers."   — Jeff Plewa, Global Oracle Alliance Director, Deloitte
	"IBM is committed to supporting both its Oracle and PeopleSoft customers as the acquisition is implemented. We look forward to continuing our relationship with Oracle as they enter this new phase of their business."   — Buell Duncan, IBM GM, IBM ISV Developer Relationship, IBM
	"Satyam is uniquely placed by having competencies in Oracle, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards, thereby being able to capitalize on the opportunities opened up by this combination. With unmatched competencies in both Oracle and PeopleSoft, Satyam can exploit the time and competency advantage, ultimately benefiting its customers."   — Mr. Vijay Prasad, Director and Senior Vice President, Enterprise Applications and Business Intelligence Solutions, Satyam
	"Satyam's PeopleSoft practice is a significant player in the North American market, while its Oracle team has a wider global presence in geographies such as North America, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific. With the combined team, Satyam would now be able to showcase its strength in all the regions. The combination gives Satyam an opportunity to cross-sell to the existing client base. It can leverage the significant size and widespread presence of Satyam as well as our client base and make the most of the opportunity at hand."    —Mr. Sriram Papani, Vice President, Enterprise Applications, Satyam
	"At Wipro Technologies we have helped many large corporations implement best practices in ERP, SCM and CRM through our consulting practices around Oracle, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards. With the recent combination of Oracle and PeopleSoft companies, we at Wipro have set up a dedicated team as part of our Center of Excellence. This team's objective is to advise our clients on approaches to be followed in both the medium and long term. The Center of Excellence is also in the process of building frameworks and tools to help clients migrate to a unified application to take advantage of consolidation and integration benefits."    —Vikram V. Gulati, Vice President, Enterprise Application Solutions, Wipro Technologies

Hardware and Infrastructure Vendors

	"Oracle and Dell have tightly aligned visions that enable customers to build a scalable enterprise using grids built on standardized technology. The combined strength of Oracle and PeopleSoft offerings will give our customers powerful business applications that meet their demands today and in the future."   — Linda York, Vice President of Global Alliances, Product Group, Dell
	"Over the past 10 years, EMC and Oracle have worked closely to develop a broad set of innovative solutions for our mutual customers. The combination of Oracle and PeopleSoft will result in a very strong product portfolio that addresses an even wider range of customer requirements. EMC and Oracle will continue to expand our mutually beneficial relationship and further integrate our technologies to help customers better manage their information throughout its lifecycle."   — Howard Elias, Executive Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Office of Technology, EMC
	"As one of the largest customers and partners of both Oracle and PeopleSoft, HP sees the tremendous value that this combination will bring to our business, our customers, and the industry. Our expertise integrating Oracle and PeopleSoft solutions inside our business well positions us to bring greater value to our combined customers."—Gilles Bouchard, CIO and Executive Vice President, Global Operations, HP
	"Intel has significant product enabling and worldwide go-to-market activities underway with both Oracle and PeopleSoft. PeopleSoft and Oracle bring together two highly valued Intel fellow travelers and we look forward to working with the new company."   — Richard B. Wirt, Intel Senior Fellow, General Manager, Software and Solutions Group, Intel
	"For almost a decade, Oracle and NetApp have shared a common vision and aligned technologies to provide complete, easily managed, cost-effective IT solutions and have collaborated on everything from backup and recovery to storage grids. We are excited about the benefits this combination brings to our customers and we look forward to continuing to work with Oracle to further integrate our technologies and reduce the cost of computing for our enterprise customers."   — Dan Warmenhoven, CEO, NetApp