Dell continues to forge stronger ties with Oracle with the introduction of some pre-packaged clusters pitched as replacements to multiprocessor Unix systems.

Dell and Oracle have been making joint cluster announcements together for some time now, so the push to ship bundles of Dell servers and storage systems with Oracle software should come as no surprise. The clusters will start at $18,000 and will run on Oracle9i RAC(Real Application Clusters) for either Red Hat Linux Advanced Server or Microsoft Windows.

The deal was important enough to warrant the presence of Michael Dell and Larry Ellison at an event in New York.

There was a time when Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy would be the usual suspect to stand beside Ellison at a press conference. Such days have passed, however, as Oracle tries to find as many partners in the Intel world as possible to get 9i RAC shipped out the door.

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